Thursday, September 28 at 6:00pm
Screening at Bell Museum | Reserve Tickets Here
Co-presented with the Bell Museum, Mizna's 2023 Twin Cities Arab Film Festival presents a special screening of the US Premiere of the Moroccan film Fragments from Heaven by Adnane Baraka.
** Please note: this screening will be taking place at The Bell Museum’s Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium, not The Main Cinema.
About Fragments From Heaven
Dir. Adnane Baraka | 2022 | Morocco, France | Tamazight, Arabic | 84 min
Several large meteor showers have hit the Moroccan desert, making its arid lands rich with celestial stones. Fragments from Heaven tells the story of Mohamed, a nomad in his fifties who lives in a tent with his family in a remote area of the eastern Moroccan desert. To provide a better life for his family, Mohamed embarks on a search for the meteorite fragments. But he is not the only one looking for the celestial stones. This story is also that of Abderrahmane, a scientist who relies on the meteorite fragments to pursue his research on the origins of Earth and life on this planet.
While one explorer is grounded to the earth, the other looks to the sky. One tries to survive in the hostility of the unchanging desert, the other attempts to understand how the Earth manages to survive in the cosmos. Mohamed’s and Abderrahmane’s archeological quests merge into a spiritual journey. The stones hide fragments of human complexity, which slowly get revealed through the quests to find them.
Director’s Bio
Adnane Baraka is a Moroccan independent filmmaker and musician born and raised in Marrakech. He holds a degree in directing from the ESAV film school, and his credits include Talbanine, a short documentary screened in FIFE Casablanca, and Wandering Stars, a documentary feature. On a long path of creation and reflection, Baraka has been working on Fragments from Heaven since 2014.
Presented by Mizna
Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, we have been creating a decolonized cultural space to reflect the expansiveness of our community and to foster exchange, examine ideas, and engage audiences in meaningful art.