{"id":393259,"date":"2025-08-08T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=393259"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:41:31","slug":"arab-world-film-festival-reaches-its-20th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-world-film-festival-reaches-its-20th-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab World Film Festival reaches its 20th edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; The 20<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the Arab World Film Festival taking place this year will feature 17 films, including 12 premieres. Created by the Institute for Arab Culture (Icarabe) and held via a partnership between CineSesc and Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, the event is sponsored by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. The films will be shown at CineSesc from August 13 to 19 and at Banco do Brasil Cultural Center from August 16 to September 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival opener \u201cAll That\u2019s Left of You,\u201d by the Palestinian American director Cherien Dabis, will be shown at 8 pm on Wednesday (13). Arab Chamber board member and event curator Arthur Jafet told ANBA that the festival has reached its 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary as a space of listening, memory, and presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThroughout these 20 years, we have been able to build symbolic bridges between Brazil and the Arab world not just through representation, but also through a living, plural filmic language that is often marginalized by traditional circuits,\u201d he argues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Jafet, the featured productions have been selected along four curatorial buckets: image and archive retrieval, listening in daily life, family heritage, and symbolic reconstruction. He also says that with each new edition, the event sets out to \u201cgive a voice\u201d to the different layers of the experience, whether that be of memory or of territorial occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full program, including the venues\u2019 addresses, is available <a href=\"https:\/\/icarabe.org\/blog\/mostra-mundo-arabe-de-cinema-celebra-20-anos-de-integracao-cultural-e-apresenta-nesta-edicao-12-filmes-ineditos-e-producoes-que-marcaram-sua-trajetoria-2\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/icarabe.org\/blog\/mostra-mundo-arabe-de-cinema-celebra-20-anos-de-integracao-cultural-e-apresenta-nesta-edicao-12-filmes-ineditos-e-producoes-que-marcaram-sua-trajetoria-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-393250\">Press Release<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve films will be premiered during the event. Curator Arthur Jafet, who is also an Arab Chamber board member, says the festival has become a mainstay in Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2317,"featured_media":393250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46537],"tags":[48399,9534,9535,28406,34388,10506,3838,27517,34390],"class_list":{"0":"post-393259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arab-brazilian-chamber","8":"tag-arab-2","9":"tag-brazil-en","10":"tag-cinema-en","11":"tag-cinema-en-2","12":"tag-cinesesc-en-2","13":"tag-festival-en","14":"tag-film","15":"tag-icarabe-en-2","16":"tag-mostra-mundo-arabe-de-cinema-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Twelve films will be premiered during the event. Curator Arthur Jafet, who is also an Arab Chamber board member, says the festival has become a mainstay in Latin America.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}