The Munk School of Global Affairs and the Toronto Jewish Film Festival are giving away two FREE tickets to see ARABIC MOVIE on Friday, May 13. Take part in our 24-hour Twitter draw for a chance to win!
ABOUT THE MOVIE:
ARABIC MOVIE/ SERET ARAVI
DIRECTORS: EYAL SAGUI BIZAWE & SARA TSIFRONI ISRAEL 2015, 60 MIN HEBREW / ARABIC
FRIDAY MAY 13, 1:00 P.M., ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
“A brilliant and compelling look at Israel’s place within the Middle East through the cultural lens” (Amy Kronish, Israelifilms.blogpost). Described as “a little window...for Israeli society, especially Jewish society, to know better the region around it” (Jadaliyya), the Friday night tradition of watching an Arabic language film from Egypt was widely practiced by Israel’s Arabic-speaking Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Arabic Movie is a heart-warming homage to this weekly tradition and to Egyptian cinema’s influence on Israeli society. Eyal Sagui Bizawe writes extensively for Ha’aretz on Arab-Jewish culture, and his documentary film springs from his own background, where questions of cultural, social, religious and linguistic identity all grappled with this dying tradition.
HOW TO ENTER:
We will post a tweet with the hashtag #TJFF2016 to our Twitter account today at 12:00 p.m. EST. Simply follow @munkschool on Twitter and retweet our #TJFF2016 tweet for a chance to win!
Multiple entries will not be accepted. A winner will be chosen on Thursday, May 12 at 12:00 p.m. EST. Winner will be contacted via direct message on Twitter.
