This August, the Unpacking the ArteArchive program: MOHAMAD SOUEID RETROSPECTIVE will screen as part of the AANM Arab Film Festival! Screening online: August 12-21 Available Worldwide RSVP HERE Film Program Cinema Fouad, Lebanon, 1994, 41 min. Tango of Yearning, Lebanon,1998, 70 min. Nightfall, Lebanon, 2000, 68 min. My Heart Beats Only for Her, Lebanon, […]
ArteEast is excited to announce the U.S premiere of Memory Box by Joana Hadjithomas And Khalil Joreige at Film Forum starting August 5! All 7:40 pm shows from August 5 – 11 will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers recorded especially for this event. The Q&A is co-presented by ArteEast, and […]
REHEARSING REALITY August 24-28 RSVP: artearchive.org REHEARSING REALITY showcases a selection of films that blend fact and fiction, blurring the line between the staged and the improvised. Featuring works by Azin Feizabadi /Kaya Behkalam, and Arvand Dashtaray. The Negotiation (2010): The Negotiation examines scenarios of political conflict through a staged negotiation in a UN Security Council-like set. The script […]
Bloody Beans + Talkback Online Screening: July 28-31, 2022 Free / $5 suggested donation RSVP at arabfilmseries.org Available Worldwide This July, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Algerian Independence, Arab Film Series presents Bloody Beans, an experimental take on the Algerian War by Narimane Mari. This program is accompanied by a recorded discussion […]
PRESENT ABSENCE Screening Online: July 14-17 RSVP: artearchive.org This selection of films draws from ArteEast’s ArteArchive to explore the notion of absence–that which is erased, missing or forgotten–as a central theme in the works of Lebanese filmmakers Marwa Arsanios, Ahmad Ghossein, and Ghassan Halwani Both Marwa Arsanios and Ghassan Halwani use animation as a means […]
ArteEast is pleased to present the upcoming Arab Film Series special program of Arab Queer films in celebration June Pride month. Screening Online: June 24-26 RSVP at arabfilmseries.org Free with RSVP! Tickets Limited! Film Program: Brothers, Mike Mosallam, United States, 2018, 9 mins Son of a Dancer, Georges Hazim, Lebanon, 2018, 20 mins Dearborn Ash, […]
Apply now to become a NNAAC Transformative Leaders Fellow working with ArteEast! The NNAAC Fellowship program is a leadership development training program that has been developed through the National Network for Arab American Communities. The program is designed for Arab American undergraduate juniors or seniors or graduate level college students, or recent graduates. Fellows […]
THE SECOND INTIFADA – TWENTY YEARS ON Screening Online June 9- 12 RSVP at ArteArchive.org The Second Intifada heralded a particularly fresh, urgent and experimental approach to filmmaking, in tune with the uprisings to which it contributed. Working at a distance from both the main political organizations and, often, the aesthetic insistences of Global Northern […]
INTIMATE DISTANCE Online Screening May 26-29 ArteEast is pleased to present the upcoming Arab Film Series online program INTIMATE DISTANCE – a Mother’s Day special on the meaning of motherhood and womanhood from the perspective of two renowned female artists and filmmakers Mona Hatoum and Marianne Khoury. Hatoum’s personal poetic short film Measures of […]
MONUMENTS & FLOWERS Online Screening: April 29- May 7 RSVP: artearchive.org Monuments & Flowers brings together a selection of seminal video work by women artists culled from the archives of ArteEast with the work of contemporary voices including Yto Barrada, Lara Baladi, Marianne Fahmy, Malak Helmy, Maha Maamoun and Setareh Shahbazi with Mirene Arsanios. How do we reflect upon […]
