Our year-round film screenings bring audiences together to connect through Arab film.
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Event Details
June 30, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
Mandoob//مندوب الليل
Country: Saudi Arabia
Director: Ali Kalthami
Length: 110 mins
Synopsis: A mentally fragile man working as a night courier gets caught up in an illegal alcohol ring.
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Event Details
June 30, 2024
4:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
The Old Oak
Country: 2023
Director: Ken Loach
Length: 113 mins
Synopsis: A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
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Event Details
June 29, 2024
4:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
The Tedious Tour of M//جولة ميم المملة
Country: Egypt
Director: Hend Bakr
Length: 76 mins
Synopsis: A peanuts street vendor who turned into one of the stars of the modern history of Egyptian literature in the sixties, comes back to his hometown and cocoons for 30 years. He claims that he was doomed to stop writing forever.
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Event Details
June 29, 2024
1:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
À toi Jeddi
Country: Canada
Director: Sara Ben-saud
Length: 61 mins
Synopsis: After discovering the memoirs of her Libyan grandfather, Sara decides to go and discover her paternal origins.
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Event Details
June 28, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
Six Feet Over//ما فوق الضريح
Country: France, Algeria
Director: Karim Bensalah
Length: 96 mins
Synopsis: Son of a former Algerian diplomat Sofiane lived his entire life to this point abroad. Now a student in Lyon, he is the victim of an administrative decision and is living under the threat of expulsion.
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Event Details
June 27, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
A Beautiful Excuse For A Deadly Sin//عذر أجمل من الذنب
Country: Bahrain
Director: Hashim Sharaf
Length: 16 mins
Synopsis: A young man tries to escalate a horse up the narrow stairs of the building to live with him in his apartment, but the building residents object to his path.
Bottles
Country: Morocco, Italy
Director: Yassine El Idrissi
Length: 18 mins
Synopsis: Said, a 13 year old boy in the old Medina of Rabat, has a side job collecting empty beer bottles to buy food for a dog he is hiding. Said finds keeping the dog he rescued conflicting with his family, friends, and religious tradition.
No Key
Country: Morocco
Director: Walid Messnaoui
Length: 22 mins
Synopsis: Two young thieves find a sealed jewelry box that becomes the envy of rival gangs.
Ahmed//أحمد
Country: Canada
Director: Rame Ibrahim
Length: 8 mins
Synopsis: Two immigrant parents are invited to talk about their journey from their home countries.
Anxiety
Country: Germany
Director: Alshafee Abby
Length: 22 mins
Synopsis: A young refugee struggles with learning the German language while being existentially at the mercy of the bureaucratic system.
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Event Details
June 23, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
Valley of Exile//وادي المنفى
Country: Canada
Director: Anna Fahr
Length: 107 mins
Synopsis: Set in the early years of the Syrian war, Valley of Exile chronicles the journey of Rima and Nour, two sisters who find unexpected refuge in a makeshift settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley after fleeing war-torn Damascus.
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Event Details
June 22, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
Conditional Desire//تصعيد
Country: Tunisia
Director: Houcem Slouli
Length: 15 mins
Synopsis: In a conformist society, Ahmed and Salma, marry for convenience to pursue their passions with secret lovers.
I Never Promised You A Jasmine Garden//لم أعدك بالياسمين
Country: Canada
Director: Teyama Alkamli
Length: 20 mins
Synopsis: Tara, a queer Palestinian woman in her late 20s, attempts to suppress her internal emotional turbulence during a phone call with her best friend Sarab, with whom she is in love.
Ayam Zaman (The Old Days)
Country: Canada
Director: Hassib Hani
Length: 7 mins
Synopsis: Hadi finds himself an unexpected guest at Adam’s engagement party decades since they last spoke, and at last come face-to-face with the events that tore them apart.
The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry//البحر الأحمر يبكي
Country: Jordan
Director: Faris Alrjoob
Length: 21 mins
Synopsis: Wandering through desolate bars, hotels, and offices, Ida attempts to feel Ismail’s presence one last time and to say goodbye.
VHS Tape Replaced
Country: Saudi Arabia, Canada
Director: Maha Al-Saati
Length: 17 mins
Synopsis: Set in 1987, a young black Saudi man attempts to impress a girl by mimicking the music video of Crown, an iconic singer from that time.
Sixty Egyptian Pounds//ستين جنيه
Country: Egypt
Director: Amr Salama
Length: 20 mins
Synopsis: A struggling family is attempting to deal with the consequences of a horrible catastrophe.
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Event Details
June 21, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
Goodbye Julia//وداعاً جوليا
Country: Sudan
Director: Mohamed Kordofani
Length: 116 mins
Synopsis: Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
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Event Details
June 20, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
VirtualScreenings:
Six Months
Country: Canada
Director: Robin Riad
Length: 2 mins
Synopsis: “Six Months” is a critique of alcohol within a North American cultural context, through societal pressure and mass marketing.
Suspended Dawn
Country: Palestine
Director: Essa Grayeb
Length: 19 mins
Synopsis: Suspended Dawn is a poetic archeological excavation of Egypt’s golden age, the video essay is divided into chapters featuring digital manipulations overlaying footage from Chahine’s film and sounds.
The Poem We Sang//غنينا قصيدة
Country: Palestine, Canada, Jordan
Director: Annie Sakkab
Length: 20 mins
Synopsis: The Poem We Sang is a 20-minute, colour and black and white, experimental documentary that meditates on love and longing – the love of one’s family and the longing for one’s home, contemplated through overcoming the trauma of loss of family home and of forced migration, transforming lifelong regrets into a healing journey of creative catharsis and bearing witness.
Locus Cordis
Country: Syria
Director: Alhasan Yousef
Length: 19 mins
Synopsis: Occupied by Israel in 1967, the Syrian Golan has a military border running through it, which families “cross” by shouting to their loved ones. From his European exile, anxiety-ridden Alhasan Yousef attempts to break free from his inner isolation with this exploration of the power of sound, in an effort to reconnect with his lost country from afar.