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Arab Film Festival

A three-day festival

Friday, October 21, 2011
6:30 PM
Writer Guild Theater
135 S. Doheny Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 

Established in 1996 as the first in the US, the Arab Film Festival (AFF) is the largest independent annual showcase of Arab films and filmmakers in the country.  The festival has an international standing and is considered one of the most important Arab film festivals outside the Arab world. The AFF strives to present the best of contemporary films that illuminate Arab lives through authentic narratives and images and to provide insight into the beauty and complexity of the Arab world. It offers the Los Angeles and the Greater Bay Area, the only access of its kind to the diversity of authentic Arab experiences seen through Arab eyes. This year the Los Angeles Festival will be in the Writers Guild of America Theater located at 135 So. Doheny Drive, in Beverly Hills.  The Centerpiece Reception and screening will take place on Friday October 21st, with the rest of the festival screenings continuing in the same location through Sunday, October 23rd.  For ticket and schedule information, please go to www.arabfilmfestival.org

FRIDAY October 21st
WGA Theatre, Los Angeles
6:30pm	Centerpiece Reception
8:00pm	Egyptian Maidens
SATURDAY October 22nd
WGA Theatre, Los Angeles
11:00am	Short Life / Richard III "An Arab VIP"
1:00pm	Grandma, A Thousand Times / Stray Bullet
3:15pm	Majid
5:30pm	The Kingdom of Women / Transit Cities
7:30pm	Messages from the Sea
9:45pm	Flowers of Evil
SUNDAY October 23rd
WGA Theatre, Los Angeles
11:00am	Beep / Aayesh / Iraq: War, Love, God and Madness
1:00pm	Bahiya & Mahmoud / Here Comes the Rain
3:00pm	The Last Passenger / The Ring Road
5:00pm	Hawi
7:00pm	Habibti / Three Veils

 

 

For more information please contact

Johanna Romero
Tel: (310) 825-1455
romero@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes