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  • SOCIAL STUDIES
    SOCIAL STUDIES

      SOCIAL STUDIES featuring  works by Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, Jumana Manna, and Christian Ghazi   In-person Film Screening + Q&A: September 16 Venue: e-flux Screening Room (NYC) Time : 7 – 9:30 PM A conversation with filmmaker Jumana Manna moderated by Amir Husak will follow the screening.    Online Screening: September 17 – […]

  • MOHAMAD SOUEID RETROSPECTIVE
    MOHAMAD SOUEID RETROSPECTIVE

    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, […]

  • US Premiere of Memory Box + Q&A with ArteEast
    US Premiere of Memory Box + Q&A with ArteEast

    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 moderated by […]

  • REHEARSING REALITY
    REHEARSING REALITY

    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
    Bloody Beans + Talkback

    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
    PRESENT ABSENCE

    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 […]

  • Arab Film Series – June Pride Program
    Arab Film Series – June Pride Program

    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 to be a NNAAC fellow with ArteEast!
    Apply to be a NNAAC fellow with ArteEast!

    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
    THE SECOND INTIFADA – TWENTY YEARS ON

    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
    INTIMATE DISTANCE

      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 […]