Our year-round film screenings bring audiences together to connect through Arab film.
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Event Details
June 20, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
VirtualScreenings:
Take My Breath//المايين
Country: Tunisia
Director: Nada Mezni Hafaiedh
Length: 95 mins
Synopsis: When Shams’ intersex identity is exposed, the young seamstress’ tranquil life unravels.
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Event Details
June 20, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
VirtualScreenings:
The Factory
Country: Syria
Director: Yanal Mansour
Length: 46 mins
Synopsis: A feature documentary film that deals with a group of events experienced by Captain Maher, a firefighter who, through a personal voluntary initiative, enters public schools teaching a subject he called “public safety,” where students are taught a set of ways to survive possible mistakes caused by war or environmental disasters.
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Event Details
June 20, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
VirtualScreenings:
The Last Queen//الملكة الأخيرة
Country: Algeria
Director: Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad
Length: 110 mins
Synopsis: Insipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa.
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Event Details
June 20, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
VirtualScreenings:
The Soil and the Sea//بحر و تراب
Country: Lebanon
Director: Daniele Rugo
Length: 74 mins
Synopsis: In Lebanon there are more than 100 untouched mass graves dating back from the Civil War, and thousands of families awaiting a missing relative or at least a bone to bury The Soil and the Sea unveils the violence lying beneath a garden, a school, a cafe, a hotel, and other unremarkable landscapes.
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Event Details
June 20, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5Screenings:
Better//باتر
First Sky//السماء الأولى
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Event Details
June 11, 2023
7:00 PM EDT
The Revue, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ON M6R 2M9Screenings:
A Gaza Weekend
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Event Details
June 11, 2023
4:00 PM EDT
The Revue, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ON M6R 2M9Screenings:
The Lebanese Burger Mafia//مافيا البرجر اللبنانية
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Event Details
June 10, 2023
4:00 PM EDT
The Revue, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ON M6R 2M9Screenings:
Streams//أطياف
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Event Details
June 10, 2023
1:00 PM EDT
The Revue, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ON M6R 2M9Screenings:
The Desert Rocker
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Event Details
June 4, 2023
8:00 PM EDT
Innis Quad, 111 St George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E8This is a free screening! No tickets required. First come, first served. Please note that the venue can only accommodate 120 people. This is an outdoor screening. Audiences are required to bring their own seating, camping chairs or blankets.
Screenings:
Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo