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The Arab Film Festival (AFF) is the flagship program of the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI) a nonprofit organization that hosts the largest and longest-running independent Arab film festival in the United States. It is held in California each year in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Diego, and Berkeley.
This psychological thriller opened the Arab Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2013. [8] In 2013, while attending the University of California at Berkeley, he made a documentary about successful Arab leaders in the U.S. called "Arab Stories: Bay Area," which aired on PBS. [citation needed]
English. Arabic. AmericanEast is a 2008 American drama film about Arab-Americans living in Los Angeles after the September 11 attacks. The story examines long-held misunderstandings about Arabic and Islamic culture by focusing on the points-of-view of three main characters.
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People is a documentary film directed by Sut Jhally and produced by Media Education Foundation in 2006. This film is an extension of the book of the same name by Jack Shaheen, which also analyzes how Hollywood corrupts or manipulates the image of Arabs. The documentary analyzes 1,000 films that have Arab ...
This is a list of existing major film festivals, sorted by continent.. The world's oldest film festival is the Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica (Venice Film Festival), while the most prestigious film festivals in the world, known as the "Big Three", are (listed chronologically according to the date of foundation): Venice, Cannes and Berlin. [1]
Michel Shehadeh. Michel Shehadeh born in 1956, in Amman, Jordan, to a Palestinian Christian family, is the Palestinian-American executive director of the Arab Film Festival and the former western regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (1996–2003). Raised in Palestine, Shehadeh relocated to the United States for ...
Oday Rasheed ( Arabic:عدي رشيد born June 17, 1973) is an Arab-American film director, screenwriter and producer born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq. Rasheed immigrated to New York City in 2012. He has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2022. Rasheed's film debut Underexposure (2005) was “billed as the first feature shot in ...
The Cairo International Film Festival is a world-class annual film festival in Cairo, Egypt. Established in 1976, it was the first film festival to be held in the Arab world and was the only international competitive feature film festival in the West Asia and Africa recognized by the FIAPF until Fajr International Film Festival became another west asian festival accredited by FIAPF.