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    Arab Film Festival comes to San Diego.

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    All different types of films attract people from all around the world. People want to watch different ethnic films because it is interesting to experience something totally different than their norm.

    The three-day San Diego Arab Film Festival is the ideal experience for just that. It will be held from Nov. 20-22 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, with an additional screening held at UCSD on Nov. 25.

    In its third year in San Diego—and 18th in the country—the event features eight films from seven countries. It’s co-sponsored by Karama: Arab and Islamic World Information Project, a Middle Eastern cultural group. In the last two years, the festival has been very popular, drawing in both people of Arab descent and people who are not.

    The cost is $12 per show or $60 for an All Access Pass. The Nov. 25 showing of “It’s Better to Jump,” which is sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine, is free. It will be held in the Governance Chambers on the fourth floor of the Price Center at UCSD.

    The film “May in the Summer” is rated R for some language. None of the other films have been rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. For more information, visit karamanow.org.

    Festival Schedule

    Held at Museum of Photographic Arts unless otherwise noted.

     

    Thursday, Nov. 20

    6:30 p.m.: “Rock the Casbah” (Morocco) – A family drama set in Tangiers as three sisters return from overseas after the death of the family patriarch.

    8:30 p.m.: “Heritages” (Lebanon) – Tells the story of five generations of a Lebanese family that have fled wars or massacres from the Ottoman Empire to the Lebanese civil war and beyond.

     

    Friday, Nov. 21

    6:30 p.m.: “Giraffada” (Palestine) – Tells the story of a boy whose love of giraffes leads him and his father to sneak a giraffe from the Tel Aviv zoo to the West Bank’s only remaining zoo.

    8:30 p.m.: “Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams” (Algeria) – Traces the work of Algerian artist Mustafa Butajin and his view of the relationship of his art to the Algerian Revolution and other international political movements.

     

    Saturday, Nov. 22

    5 p.m.: “Ladder to Damascus” (Syria) – Follows a drama student to Damascus where she meets an aspiring cinematographer amid sounds of tumult and war.

    7 p.m.: “In My Mother’s Arms” (Iraq) – Tells the story of a compassionate man in Baghdad who tries to help 32 children orphaned by war.

    9 p.m.: “May in the Summer” (Jordan) – Successful author returns from the U.S. to Amman for her wedding when simmering conflicts between family members cause her to rethink her life choices.

     

    Tuesday, Nov. 25 at Price Center, UCSD

    7:30 p.m.: “It’s Better to Jump” (Palestine) – The ancient city of Akka, along the northern coast of Israel, is the home to a melting pot of Muslims, Christians, Jews and Baha’i. This film captures the spirit of Akka’s Arab residents and the leap of faith they make towards self-determination and a better future.

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