28th Arab Film Festival: Virtual and In Person
The Metta Center for Nonviolence is proud to be a community sponsor of the 28th Annual Arab Film Festival.
Use this code: Metta@AFF2024 for 25% off your tickets.
The flagship event of the Arab Film and Media Institute, the Arab Film Festival is the longest running independent festival of its kind in North America. Launched in 1996, the festival's mission is to present the best of contemporary films that illuminate the richness of Arab culture through authentic narratives and images, providing insight into the beauty and complexity of the Arab world.
The festival also offers special programming to local audiences, and unprecedented access to the diversity and range of authentic Arab experiences. The festival has gained an international reputation for excellence and offers its audiences access to media that reflects the lives of under-represented and provocative themes and groups on a cultural and societal level.
The 28th edition runs October 24-November 3, 2024, in-person throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, with a virtual track open nationally.
The 2024 Arab Film Festival carries special significance and will include a special focus on Palestine and Palestinian stories.
You can find the full schedule here. They also have a Virtual program, see here.
These are the Palestinian films that will be screening:
Opening Night: Life Is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza
Centerpiece Film: From Ground Zero
Retrospective: Slingshot Hip Hop (w/ discussion)