SERIES
Fourth Wednesdays at the Trylon
The Mizna Film Series is a monthly selection of Southwest Asian/North African (SWANA) film programming curated by Mizna, a St. Paul–based, Arab American arts nonprofit that publishes a biannual Arab American literary journal and presents the annual Twin Cities Arab Film Festival each fall. The Mizna Film Series expands Mizna’s regular programming to include repertory screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions, exploring documentary, narrative, and non-narrative filmmaking practices and aesthetics from the SWANA region and beyond.
The Mizna Film Series screens classic and contemporary works by SWANA artists at the Trylon on the fourth Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. Ticket prices vary. If you miss a screening, most films are available on Mizna’s virtual cinema following the in-person screening.
(2003, DCP, 85m, Palestine/Israel, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles) dir Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan. Documentary feature (in three parts). In the summer of 2002, for two long months, Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi traveled together from the south to the north of their country of birth; they traced their trajectory on a map and […]
(2003, video, 103m, Palestine/Israel, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles) dir Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan. Documentary feature (in three parts) In the summer of 2002, for two long months, Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi traveled together from the south to the north of their country of birth; they traced their trajectory on a map […]
(2003, video, 85m, Palestine/Israel, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles) dir Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan. Documentary feature (in three parts). In the summer of 2002, for two long months, Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi traveled together from the south to the north of their country of birth; they traced their trajectory on a map and […]
(1979, DCP, 109m, Algeria/Lebanon) dir Farouk Beloufa w/Yasmine Khlat. Farouk Beloufa’s only feature film follows a group of leftist friends in Beirut in the early 1970s. Larbi, a young Algerian journalist reporting in Lebanon, is swept up in the whirlwind of events following the January 1975 battle of Kfarchouba. As Beirut sinks into chaos, Larbi […]