Abdullah grew up in a conservative family in the UAE, where expectations for his future were high. At an early age, he discovered music, an untenable career choice according to his parents. Still, his love for playing and writing songs never faded. Screening with short film Villagers
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Blood Stripe explores a character that is relatively new to both U.S. policy and to movies - a fully-combat-participatory female soldier. A female USMC veteran, battling unseen wounds after multiple tours, flees her suburban life in search of solace in the North Woods.
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Burning Hope is the story of an unlikely friendship between Zeineb (Anissa Daoud), Elyssa (Doria Achour), and Houssine (Achref Ben Youssef), two young women and a teenage boy whose paths cross on the night President Ben Ali flees Tunisia, January 14, 2011.
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When Chris, a young African-American man, visits his white girlfriend's family estate, he becomes ensnared in the more sinister, real reason for the invitation.
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Winner of 3 Academy Awards, this timeless story of human connection and self-discovery chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
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Raising Bertie is an intimate six year portrait of three African American boys growing into adulthood in rural North Carolina, exploring complex relationships between generational poverty, educational inequity, and race.
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This segment of three films remembers the massacres at Sabra and Shatila in 1982, which claimed the lives of many Palestinians, and marks 50 years since the devastating Arab-Israeli war in 1967. Please join us after the film screenings for stories from local Palestinians living in diaspora, as they share their memories of home, loss, history, and life.
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While the young people of Gaza lack job prospects and suffer the indignities of life under occupation, this doesn’t stop them from surfing. Gaza Surf Club follows the dedicated members of the surf community in Gaza City, who must use smuggled surfboards to pursue their passion.
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Nada travels back to Lebanon after living in France, and she feels like a foreigner in her own country. But, there is still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who disappeared mysteriously during the Lebanese civil war. Screening with short film Caravan.
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Three individual romances become unexpectedly intertwined in this clever Lebanese comedy about love, sex, and tradition. The film depicts and complicates the physical and emotional challenges that arise from even the most traditional relationships. Screening with short film The Candle.
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