Event

In line with Penn’s Covid19 response guidelines, the Cinema & Media Studies Program has decided to cancel the 2020 edition of New Middle East Cinema. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause and send our best wishes to all.

Penn Middle East Center, in collaboration with Cinema & Media Studies, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, is pleased to present the 2020 edition of New Middle East Cinema.

The festival is free-admission and open to all.
All movies with English subtitles.
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Monday 16 March @ 6:30pm | Syria | Presenter, Huda J. Fakhreddine

For Sama
Waad Al-Kateab & Edward Watts, 2019, 1h 40min
For Sama is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
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Tuesday 17 March @ 6:30pm | Israel | Presenter, Nili Gold

The Other Story
Avi Nesher, 2019, 1h 52minTwo rebellious young women cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.
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Wednesday 18 March @ 6:30pm | Iran | Presenter, Mahyar Entezari

Sly
Kamal Tabrizi, 2018, 1h 28min
Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action.
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Thursday 19 March @ 6:30pm | Turkey | Presenter, Feride Hatiboglu

Sibel
Guillaume Giovanetti & Çagla Zencirci, 2018, 1h 35min
Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language
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Friday 20 March @ 6:30pm | Palestine | Presenter, Ibrahim Miari

Tel Aviv on Fire
Sameh Zoabi, 2018, 1h 40min
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier.
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