Screening

MENA Pop-up in Coquitlam

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MENA presents its first Pop-Up event to increase access outside of the Vancouver core! Join us for a night of special programming starting at 2:00PM on Saturday, November 9, at Coquitlam’s Evergreen Cultural Centre as we project two short-film screenings of movies we’ve never presented before, in partnership with Close-Up Film Festival.

Close up & Far Out features a diverse lineup of recent work representing filmmakers of Syrian, Lebanese, Saudi, Iranian and Palestinian background.

Following a break with refreshments in the lobby, we present Atmospheric Afghanistan with a focused roundup of new Afghan and Afghan-Canadian shorts, preceded by introductory words and a special musical performance.

Enjoy the entire MENA Pop-up in Coquitlam starting at 2pm with the MENA Film Pop-Up Day Pass. This includes refreshments and introductory activities before each screening, so come early and don’t miss out!

Program

Close Up & Far Out

2:00 PM – The MENA Pop Up Team welcomes you with tea and snacks!.

2:45 PM – Screening #1: Special programming of recent work by various MENA communities

Atmospheric Afghanistan

6:00 PM - Join the community for a sampling of delicious local Egyptian cuisine

7:00 PM - Theatre doors open for the live musical performance

8:00 PM - Screening #2: Special programming of new Afghan and Afghan-Canadian short films

Performance

Fariborz Alagheband and Ramin Rahmati will open the second half of MENA Pop-Up with a program of Afghan music on the Rubab, an instrument of Afghan origin, showcasing its rich musical heritage, before our Atmospheric Afghanistan screenings.

Screening

Empty Your Pockets

Tara Aghdashloo
As the dark side of Hassan’s job as an airport customs officer becomes more clear, he must decide what matters to him the most and what cost he is willing to pay, navigating a totalitarian system.

My Homeland

Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Nawal forms an unlikely friendship with Tanya, becoming an accomplice to her guerilla gardening on the lawn of their building. Together they battle with middle management to make it to harvest.

Echoes

Julien Kobersy
Told through a single window in Lebanon, the history of two generations unfolds. Family dynamics take place, in a means all too familiar to make one wonder: will they repeat their own history?

Leila

Fariba Haidari
Leila is a charming 64-year-old transgender woman who is permanently navigating and negotiating her place in an antagonistic world, just before the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan.

pal/imp/sest

Zelikha Zohra Shoja
A choir of witnesses revisit a disrupted mourning session.

Yellow

Elham Ehsas
Laili, a 21-year-old Afghan woman who has been educated and has never had to wear a veil, must now go to her local Chadari seller to purchase her first full body veil.

Echoes

Ahmad Ebrahimi
In “Echoes,” Lena, a resilient immigrant, navigates the challenges of displacement in a tent. Inside her tent, she grapples with the scars of her past.

Land Greetings

Moderator

Emcee

Meet our Jury

Panelists

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Saturday, November 9, 2024
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2:00 pm
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 Mins
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2 PM
$18-35
Online Only
Evergreen Cultural Centre
Online Only
19+

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