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2008 MESA FilmFest

FILM SCHEDULE

Friday 6:00pm-10:00pm
Saturday 9:00am-9:45pm
Sunday 8:00am-6:30pm; 8:45pm-10pm
Monday 8:00am-1pm; 2:45-10pm
Tuesday 8:00am-2pm

FilmFest Program

FRIDAY November 21

6:00pm Mad, Mad, World (the MESA FilmFest Logo)
Blue Islam (Part 2 of "Inside Islam" series) (48)
7:00pm

Can You Hear Me? (51)
What a Job (8)
8:00pm

THIEF OF BAGDAD (106)
screening in honor of Ellen-Fairbanks "Taffy" D. Bodman

SATURDAY November 22

9:00am 33 Days (70)
10:20am Dishing Democracy (57)
11:20am NOSH-E JAN (7)
11:30am Plastic Flowers Never Die (33)
12:05pm Recognized (61)
1:10pm NY'S DIRTY LAUNDRY (77)
2:30pm Two Months to Home (8)
2:40pm Baghdad Twist (34)
3:15pm A Road to Mecca (92)
4:55pm

SANTA CLAUS IN BAGHDAD (40)
Cineforum with Raouf Zaki and Elsa Marston Harik
5:50pm Bloody Cartoons (54)
6:45pm Colonel Lawrence's War (37)
7:25pm I Love Hip Hop in Morocco (80)
8:45pm THE FISH FALL IN LOVE (96)

SUNDAY November 23

8:00am Islamic Art at the V & A (50)
8:55am untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends... (11)
9:10am Three Times Divorced (74)
10:30am The Corporal's Diary (57)
11:30am Sinai Sun (34)

12:05pm

 

Forgotten Voices: Women in Bosnia (50)
Cineforum with filmmaker Jennifer Rawlings
1:10pm PERSEPOLIS (91)
2:45pm *Divorce Sha'ria Style (49)
3:35pm Energy War (78)
5:00pm DETROIT UNLEADED (20)
5:20pm Unsettled (80)
Cineforum with filmmaker Adam Hootnick

7:00-8:30pm PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
AWARD CEREMONY
8:45pm THE KITE (80)

Monday, November 24

8:00am Young Arabs (18)
8:30am-10:30am FILMFEST PANEL
Using Middle Eastern Film in the Classroom Year 2
"Curriculum Development, Strategies & Teaching Tools"
10:45am CAPTAIN ABU RAED (95)
Cineforum with Jay Harris
12:40pm I AM WAITING (11)
1:00-2:30pm MESA BUSINESS MEETING
2:30pm *Taste of Turkey (30)
3:00pm *Afghanistan's Opium Trail (43)
3:50pm

(un)veiled: Muslim Women Talk About Hijab (35)
Cineforum with filmmaker Ines Hofman Kanna
4:45pm Four Wives One Man (76)
6:15pm To See if I'm Smiling (60)
7:15pm Frontrunner (90)
8:45pm THE SPARROW (100)

TUESDAY November 25

8:00am The Light of Allah (Inside Islam, Pt. 5) (48)
8:50am Jihad TV (48)
9:40am Kabul Transit (84)

11:00am-2:00pm Viewer's Choice

A chance to request a repeat of documentaries shown during the FilmFest. Titles are posted late Monday afternoon.