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  Arab Film Festival

  Oct 13, 2011

  The Arab Film Festival, now entering its 15th year, screens more than 40 films in two weeks, beginning Thursday at SF's Castro Theatre and making stops in Berkeley and San Jose before closing in Los Angeles on the 23rd. AFF Exec Director Michel Shehadeh spoke with SF360 earlier this week. More info and ticketing at arabfilmfestival.org.

  
• October 11, 2011
  
  

  Arab Film Festival

  Oct 13, 2011

  The Arab Film Festival, now entering its 15th year, screens more than 40 films in two weeks, beginning Thursday at SF's Castro Theatre and making stops in Berkeley and San Jose before closing in Los Angeles on the 23rd. AFF Exec Director Michel Shehadeh spoke with SF360 earlier this week. More info and ticketing at arabfilmfestival.org.

  
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  Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall

  Susan Gerhard
  Oct 10, 2011

  Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.

  
• October 14, 2011
  
  

  Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall

  Susan Gerhard
  Oct 10, 2011

  Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.

  
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  Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall

  Susan Gerhard
  Oct 10, 2011

  Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.

  
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  Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall

  Susan Gerhard
  Oct 10, 2011

  Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.

  
• October 14, 2011
  
  

  Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall

  Susan Gerhard
  Oct 10, 2011

  Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.

  
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  Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall

  Susan Gerhard
  Oct 10, 2011

  Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.

  
• October 19, 2010
  
  

  Arab Film Festival

  Oct 19, 2010

  The Arab Film Festival wraps up this weekend in Berkeley at Shattuck Cinemas. Closing Night films include ‘Every Day is a Holiday,' the story of three women in Lebanon and their very different intentions for boarding the same bus to a men’s penitentiary, and ‘Cinecitta,' about a struggling filmmaker who decides to rob a bank to fund his latest project. More at arabfilmfestival.org.

  
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  'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2010

  Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.

  
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  'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2010

  Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.

  
• October 14, 2010
  
  

  'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2010

  Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.

  
• October 12, 2010
  
  

  Arab Film Festival

  Oct 14, 2010

  Lyes Salem’s dark comedy ‘Masquerades’ opens the Arab Film Festival at the Castro; it tells the story of Mounir, a young Algerian misfit who informs the whole town his narcoleptic sister Nim is engaged to a handsome, wealthy foreigner. The festival runs October 14–24. More at arabfilmfestival.org.

  
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  'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2010

  Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.

  
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  'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2010

  Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.

  
• October 14, 2010
  
  

  'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2010

  Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.

  
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  'Lesh Sabreen?' On Red Vic Screen

  Robert Avila
  Mar 15, 2010

  Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, was not even aware there was such a thing as Palestinian cinema until, as a teenager, he came to the Bay Area to visit his brother and sister.

  
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  12th Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 20, 2008

  In its 12th season, the country's first and largest independent exhibitor of Arab cinema has gotten to be one of the bigger small fests in the Bay Area.

  
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  A Talk With Arab Film Festival's Executive Director

  Michael Fox
  Oct 13, 2008

  We sat down with Michel Shehadeh, who joined the festival earlier this year, for a wide-ranging interview on Arab film.

  
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  The 11th Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 18, 2007

  The Arab Film Festival, now in its 11th year, is featuring not just 80 movies from 13 countries, but is also including screenings in LA, a first for a Bay Area-based fest.

  
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  Arab Film Festival 2006

  Robert Avila
  Sep 7, 2006

  Executive director Bashir Anastas discusses this year's lineup.