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SCHEDULE

# after film title indicates film length in minutes.
Feature films are listed in all capitals.
Cinefora or if filmmaker in attendance, listed in green.

 


 

FRIDAY November 19

7:30 pm            Mad Mad Mad World (4)
                        We Loved Each Other so Much (80)
9:00 pm            THE NIGHTINGALE’S PRAYER (126)

SATURDAY November 20
9:00 am            Afghanistan: the Lost Truth (64)
10:10 am          Farouk Abdel Muhti: Political Prisoner (9)
10:25 am          Persons of Interest (63)
11:30 am          Islam Facing East (25)
12:00 nn           Peace Propaganda (excerpt) (35)
12:40 pm          Twenty Years Old in the Middle East (52)
1:35 pm            I Have a Dream (4)
1:40 pm            Robbing the Cradle of Civilization: Iraq’s Antiquities (42)
2:25 pm            Control Room (90)
4:00 pm            Yitzak Rabin (56)

5:00 pm            Mystic Iran (52)
                          CINEFORUM with Aryana Farshad

6:05 pm            Forget Baghdad (111)
7:55 pm            Garden Dwelling (30)
8:25 pm            DISTANCE FROM THE SUN (8)
8:35 pm            Women & Islam: Islam Unveiled Part I (49)
9:25 PM           DISTANT (110)

SUNDAY November 21
9:00 am            Qudad (58)
10:00 am          Beyond the Borqa (25) Roksana Bahramitash in
                        attendance          
                       
                        I Have a Dream (4)
10:30 am          Headscarves (22)
10:55 am          Traditions of a Heritage (Part I) (49)
11:50 am          CRIMSON GOLD (97)
1:25 pm            Yapak (28) Kimberly Hart in attendance
1:55 pm            The Yemen Option (40)
                         I Have a Dream (4)
2:40 pm            Medium of Love (52)

3 :35 pm            By the Dawn’s Early Light (52)
                        CINEFORUM with Zareena Grewal

4:35 pm           I Am Palestine (16) Suha Araj in attendance
4:55 pm            Daily Baghdad (25)

5:25 pm            Traditions of a Heritage (Part II) (49)
                         CINEFORUM with Maisah Sobaihi

                     ****BREAK FOR PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS**** 6:45-9:00 pm

9:15 pm            DIVINE INTERVENTION (90)

MONDAY November 22
9:00 am            Assyrians in Armenia (40)
9:45 am            Search for Freedom (54)
10:45 am          Women of the Sand (52)
11:40 am          Promises and Betrayals (53)
12:35 pm          Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land (35) excerpt

                        ****BREAK FOR BUSINESS MEETING****
1:15-2:30 pm

2:30 pm            Selves and Others (54)
                         The Fabulous Samia Gamal (4)
3:30 pm            About Baghdad (90)
5:00 pm            Haram-Yemen, The Hidden Half Speaks (52)
5:55 pm            Eye of the Storm (52)
                        The Fabulous Samia Gamal (4)
6:55 pm            The Ladies Room (55)
7:55 pm            Ahmad Mahmoud: Noble Novelist (56)
8:55 pm            Saddam’s Revenge (52)
9:50 pm            INCH ’ALLAH DIMANCHE (98) end 11:25 pm

TUESDAY November 23
8:00 am            I Exist (57)
9:00 am            Women of Islam: Veiling and Seclusion (50)
9:55 am            Reinventing the Taliban (47)
10:45 am          Generation X Saddam (45)
11:30 am          Beyond the Borqa (25)

****VIEWER’S CHOICE****
12:00 nn – 2:00 pm