Category: film

Where Are The People? A poetry mini film by jessica Care moore

Where Are The People is a mini film by poet jessica Care moore. The poem is in her latest collection, We Want Our Bodies Back on Harper/Amistad. The film highlights some of the independent business that have survived gentrification in the Cass Corridor neighborhood of Detroit. The live recording with JCM and Trey Simon was ...

Top 5 Documentaries I watched in 2021-2022

Top 5 Documentaries I watched in 2021-2022

Best 5 Shows I Watched in 2021-2022

Best 5 Shows I Watched in 2021-2022

My List of 10 Best Films of 2021-2022

My List of 10 Best Films of 2021-2022

Five Oscar-Worthy Films To Watch Now

Here are the 5 Oscar-Worth films to watch now recommended by Wissam Charafeddine 5. Red Rocket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfndmy-6e28 4. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsOW5zzQ66k&t=1s 3. UPPERCASE PRINT (dir. Radu Jude, Romania)  https://bigworldpictures.vhx.tv/videos/uppercase-print-engsub-logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW8X-JfwyOQ 2. Parallel Mothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL6JDYkRa2g 1. DRIVE MY CAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BPKPb_RTwI

New Arab film reviews by Barbara

https://barbaranimri.com/2021/09/tunisian-films-new-and-noteworthy/ Noteworthy, New Tunisian Films. Sept 2/21 by BNimri Aziz “A Son” and “She Had a Dream”, both from Tunisia, are among new productions distributed in the U.S. this fall through Art Mattan’s African Diaspora International Film Festivals. The compelling plot of “A Son” opens with the Ben Youssef family picnicking among friends in the ...

Rabet’s Documentary Launch: Colonial Economy

Rabet's Documentary Launch: Colonial Economy Watch Rabet's latest documentary, Colonial Economy, which explores the conditions under which Palestinian workers under occupation are forced to work in Israel and illegal Israeli settlements. WATCH

المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة والفنون ندوة مع المخرج السينمائي العراقي الدكتور ليث عبد الأمير تحت عنوان: سينما الاكتسريم وموقع المثقف العربي من السينما العالمية [podcast/video]

المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة والفنون يقدم ندوة مع المخرج السينمائي العراقي الدكتور ليث عبد الأمير تحت عنوان سينما الاكتسريم موقع المثقف العربي من السينما العالمية الخميس 1 نيسان إبريل \ 2021م الساعة الحادية عشر صباحاً في ديترويت الخامسة مساءً بتوقيت باريس

Watch Movies For Free Using Your Library Card

MEET KANOPY BE ENTERTAINED, BE ENRICHED The films that truly resonate with us do more than just entertain. They inspire us, enrich us, and challenge our perspectives. Kanopy ensures that these films reach viewers around the world. We stream thoughtful entertainment to your preferred device with no fees and no commercials by partnering with public ...

5 Arabic Films to See Now On Amazon Prime

1. GHADI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4L6ESN07nY Cast : Georges Khabbaz, Lara Rain, Emmanuel KhairallahDirector : Amin DoraGenre : Comedy, DramaRelease Date : 19 February 2015SynopsisIn a small Lebanese costal village, growing fear by the neighbors towards Ghadi, a young special needs boy in their midst forces his father Leba, the town’s only music teacher to concoct a crazy ...

Watch These 5 Films This Winter Break

1. Kill it and leave this town Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive. Over the years, a city grows in his imagination. One day, literary heroes and cartoon childhood idols, who ...

Film Recommendations from Louis CK

Film recommendation from Louis C.K.: Greetings my human friend. I am writing to let you know that there is A NEW EPISODE OF Long-Distance Relationship an audio series by me and Blanche Gardin. If you've already purchased the series and want to download the new episode just click here and log in (if you're not ...

UMS Presents Arab World and its Diaspora

https://ums.org/series/the-arab-world-and-its-diaspora/ Includes Four Events in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Season Tickets available starting Monday, May 4 at 10 am. Southeast Michigan is home to a historic, celebrated, and diverse Arab community. This season, an expert advisory group composed of artists, scholars, and community leaders from our region has helped UMS co-curate a portfolio of performances ...

Three Old and Three New Woody Allen Films to See Before Visiting NY

Old: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Original Trailer HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7C3aJAv2M   Manhattan (1979) - official US rerelease trailer (HD) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xo-AnBn8H0     Annie Hall Official Trailer #1 - Woody Allen Movie (1977) HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqVgCfZX-yE   NEW: Melinda and Melinda (2004) - IMDb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BanSFjrqBEo   New York Stories - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0MtQ1s_A_4   A RAINY DAY IN ...

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن -السينما العربية … أبرز معوقاتها وآفاقها المستقبلية للأستاذ مهدي البابلي

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن -السينما العربية ... أبرز معوقاتها وآفاقها المستقبلية للأستاذ مهدي البابلي

Intimacies From An Awful War. “For Sama” by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, reviewed by BN Aziz

July 25, 2019 If you think you’ve seen enough of conflict, especially the war in Syria, you haven’t. From love of nation and loathing of military rule, from inchoate hope of redemption and improbable determination, indebted to lost friends and seeded in the birth of your child, comes an intimate demonstration of how war happens ...

14th ARAB FILM FESTIVAL EXAMINES HOME, COMMUNITY, DIASPORA

Cannes, Sundance festival winners among the lineup Detroit teen in the cast of film making Michigan premiere Dearborn, Mich. (May 23, 2019) – Films earning acclaim on the international festival circuit are among those featured at the Arab American National Museum’s (AANM) 14th Arab Film Festival (AFF), June 7-16, 2019, with screenings at the Dearborn ...

Saving Aleppo’s seeds from the Syrian war

Arab Film Series: Wild Relatives ARAB FILM SERIES Wild Relatives 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18 at AANM PURCHASE TICKETS Following a transportation of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon, Wild Relatives starts in 2012 when an international agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war. ...