SAFF 2025 - Shorts Program 1 [In-Person Only]
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
Fri Aug 15: 7.00pm PDT
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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TOTAL RUN TIME: 101 Minutes
The Seattle Arab Film Festival returns with a powerful celebration of Arab cinemafrom 1930s Palestine to present-day stories from the Arab world and the diaspora.
FILMS IN THIS PROGRAM INCLUDE:
A SHORT FILM ABOUT KIDS
11, Palestine, 2023
Four kids from the refugee camp in Bethlehem decide to visit the sea for the first time in their life.
THE RED SEA MAKES ME WANNA CRY
21, Jordan/Germany, 2023
A haunted Ida travels to the liminal site of her partners disappearance in an attempt to feel his presence one last time and to say goodbye.
THE MOTHER AND THE BEAR
12, Egypt, 2024
Egyptian filmmaker Yasmina El Kamaly reflects on her familys matrilineal history by examining her relationship with her mother, as well as the complicated bond between her mother and grandmother. Using journals, home videos and letters, she locates their longing for affection and the dysfunctional ways they go about getting itoffering and rebuffing attention, smothering, and straining loveas the root.
QUEEN/CHIKHA
24, France/Morocco, 2024
FATINE, a young girl of 17, lives with her mother, NADIA who is a Chikha(*) in Azemmour, Morocco. She has just passed her baccalaureate exams and shes torn between two opposing paths: either committing to the familys artistic tradition, or a more risk-averse life with her boyfriend, who scorns her heritage.
(*) singer and dancer of Aïta, popular Moroccan music.
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
15, France/Lebanon/Egypt, 2024
Facing their imminent separation, Elias and Christiane dive into their memories for one final goodbye.
THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, WITNESSING
18, UK, 2024
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely- seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image- making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land. |
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Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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| Start: | Friday Aug 15, 2025 7:00 PM | | End: | Friday Aug 15, 2025 9:00 PM |
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Accessibility
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum's ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at rajah@nwfilmforum.org
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