InFocus: Arab Cinema (Los Angeles)
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) presents Monthly Film Festival InFocus: Middle Eastern & Arab Cinema program.
🎬 NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) invites you to our December Monthly Film Festival, featuring the annual InFocus: Middle Eastern & Arab Cinema program!
This month’s line-up offers an international lineup of films by talented emerging Middle Eastern and Arab filmmakers across two short film programs, including one curated in partnership with Mizna, and will open with a selection from NFMLA’s ongoing monthly programming.
The day’s programming continues with December Shorts, a collection of shorts presented as part of NFMLA’s ongoing monthly program. This month’s block includes stories about coming of age, being caught between two cultures, embracing connection, being transformed by a chance meeting, finding oneself and pondering the great beyond in more ways than one. This block includes recently Oscar-Qualified film Nightfaces, directed by Martin Winter and Stefan Langthaler.
The day’s programming continues with InFocus: Arab Cinema, a stand-out selection of short films curated in partnership with Mizna. For more than twenty-five years, Mizna has promoted contemporary and experimental approaches to art, literature, and film; work that questions and expands the forms and conceptual frameworks of Arab and SWANA culture. They publish a biannual print literary and art journal and produce the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, the largest and longest-running SWANA-centered film festival in the Midwest.
The night concludes with InFocus: Middle Eastern Cinema, The films tell stories about memory, time, grief, friendship, trauma, displacement, complicated family relationships and love. This selection includes the world premiere of writer-director Sahar Ghorishi’s Whispers of Home.
NFMLA proudly showcases films by storytellers of all backgrounds year-round through both our general and InFocus programming, and all filmmakers are encouraged to submit their projects for consideration for upcoming festivals.
✨ Don’t miss this exciting celebration of new voices and Middle Eastern & Arab stories!
🎟️ For more information and tickets, visit the event site.