ArteEast is excited to announce that the Arab Film Fest Collab program and festival passes are now live! Check out the variety of films and purchase your pass to reserve your “seat!” Genres include drama, science-fiction, comedy and documentary, in both short-form and feature lengths. Online Festival: April 7-17 Get your passes at arabfilmfestcollab.org Passes […]
SPACES OF EXCEPTION + Talkback Online Screening: March 24-27 RSVP at arabfilmseries.org Marking the 46th commemoration of Land Day this March, the Arab Film Series is proud to present Spaces of Exception, directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny. Profiling the American Indian reservation alongside the Palestinian refugee camp, this work is an attempt to understand the significance of the land – its […]
MOHAMAD SOUEID RETROSPECTIVE Screening Online: March 3-13 RSVP at artearchive.org Free/ Suggested donation $5 Video pioneer, cinema auteur, and television producer Mohamed Soueid has collected stories from his compatriots for most of his adult life. Widely regarded as Beirut’s first video artist, Soueid films defy categorization. Soueid has also worked as a film critic and […]
LIFE WITHOUT BASKETBALL + Panel Discussion Online Screening: Feb 17–20 Synopsis: Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir broke records and barriers on her way to become the first Division I athlete to play basketball while wearing hijab. When a controversial ruling ends her chances at playing professionally, she re-examines her faith and identity as a Muslim American. The Arab Film […]
Coming to ArteEast’s Unpacking the ArteArchive platform in February! ARCHIVE FEVER: Women’s Cinema from South West Asia & North Africa Online Screening: Feb 4-13 Tkts: Free/ $5 Suggested Donation RSVP at artearchive.org “South West Asia and North Africa, there are historical records of women’s cinema since the 1920s. However, a lack of state […]
Ib’atli Gawab / Signed, Sealed, Delivered: On longing and political resistance through epistolary forms in four essay-films. Curated by Line Ajan Online Screening: Nov. 18-21 RSVP at artearchive.org Tickets Free / 5$ suggested donation Featuring works by Mona Benyamin, Emily Jacir, Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Siav Bedirxan, and Akram Zaatari Inspired by two love […]
ArteEast is pleased to co-present a special Arab Film Series program as part of AANM’s JAM3A Festival – a free virtual music and arts festival taking place Sept. 23-26, 2021. Films and musical performances are all free with registration! RSVP for films at: arabfilmseries.org For more info on the festival go to www.jam3a.org “ART WAR,” […]
Eleven Reflections on September + Panel Discussion Online Screening: September 9-16 RSVP HERE Free / 5$ suggested Donation Arab Film Series presents this month’s special program Eleven Reflections on September, by Andrea Assaf: a poetry, music, movement and digital media exploration of Arab American experience, Wars on/of Terror, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty” […]
ArteEast invites you to join a tour of Protocinema’s exhibition, “A Few in Many Places” Led by ArteEast Special Projects curator and Protocinema’s curator New York chapter, Lila Nazemian. Saturday, August 7th, 11 AM* REGISTER HERE Protocinema house on Governors Island | Colonels Row, 410A Limited attendance strictly by ticket *Note: Ferries to Governors Island […]
DISRUPTED PASTS, DISPLACED FUTURES Online Screening: July 24 – 27 Tickets free / on donation – RSVP HERE Livestream discussion with filmmakers Mariam Mekiwi and Larissa Sansour: July 24 at 12.30 pm EDT Disrupted Pasts, Displaced Futures is a selection of moving image works by contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa, blending […]