NewFilmmakers Announce Their Christmas Screening Series

By: Nov. 24, 2010
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Wednesday, November 24th- The NewFilmmakers NY Series screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. NewFilmmakers LA screens in the Stanley Kramer Theater at the Sunset Gower Studio. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online.

Tickets for the evening at NewFilmmakers NY, are only $6 and are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

Visit NewFilmmakers.com for more information

6:00 PM Documentary Series

Middle East Filmmakers Program

Tanya Sleiman IRAQ IN THE USA
A vibrant collective portrait of Iraqi refugees experiencing extraordinary transitions in a new wave of migration to sunny California.

Nina Kusturica LITTLE ALIEN
They are teenagers who fled crisis regions and undertook an extremely dangerous journey to Europe, all alone, hoping for one thing: to live.


8:00 PM Special Program

Middle East Filmmakers Program

NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM
With The Middle East Filmmakers Group

Free The Children GROWING UP IN INDIA
In the Northeastern desert state of Rajasthan in India, Sangita feels the limitations of her culture's caste system when she decides she must forgo an education to train as a dancer in order to support her family.

Palestinian Filmmakers HUDUD
Being 16 in the Occupied Palestinian Territories today is to have one's life dictated by curfews, clashes with soldiers at check points, arbitrary searches and arrests. Hudud (an Arabic word for restriction) illustrates the challenges that Israeli construction of the "separation barrier" or wall pose for Palestinian youth.

Kamran Safi KAMRAN'S STORY
Drawing from a series of dramatic life-changing events, Kamran, 14-year-old asylum seeker, Kamran, narrates the story of his courageous escape from Afghanistan and his unaccompanied journey to the United Kingdom.

Moniere BIOFUEL
As a young girl growing up in Afghanistan in poverty, a century old grandma can't help but hide food in various places of the house, particularly chips. Is she a Kleptomaniac as some of the elderly are, or is she doing it for survival or perhaps a higher purpose?

Rick Lancaster AHMED
Ahmed is a typical 12 year-old kid, one we all know, but this is Israel, 2007, and few days end the way they begin.

Moniere ALONE
Andy Dick stars in this short film where he portrays the struggles of every lonely man. Aloneness is considered antisocial in our society, but during heightened states of awareness, bliss is truly experienced when one is spiritually connected with The Omniscient One.

Ryan R. Zeidan GO!
Two Arab-American siblings, Michael and Noura, visit their uncle in Los Angeles for the summer. Michael is studying to be a doctor, while Noura is striving to be an actress. They encounter influences through music and theater that detours their original plans. Their dreams awaken, uprooting their lives with adversity and discovery ahead. They struggle with their personal growth and strict family values.

Roxanne Varzi PLASTIC FLOWERS NEVER DIE
The war with Iraq was the largest mobilization of the Iranian population, achieved primarily by producing and promoting a culture of martyrdom based on religious themes found in Shi'a Islam. Martyrdom became state policy. Khomeini made it clear the war was a spiritual one that the people, and not a professional army, would fight. It would be a sacred defense; a war of good against evil, of spirit against military might, where a human wave of believers would form a wall of defense against the Iraqis. Over 800,000 people died.

Iman Zawahry UNDERCOVER
Dodging pork sandwiches and diving into pig pens, Nada Assad, an American Muslim cop, attempts to solve a pig-napping case to be promoted to detective.



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