March 26, 2003

FILM FEST REVIEW: Mid-East Summit in Midwest

by mizna | in Mizna News

MINNESOTA’S FIRST ARAB FILM FESTIVAL SPEAKS LOUDER THAN CNNJeremy O’Kasick, City PagesAt the close of Jenin Jenin, a Palestinian documentary that’s screening as part of “So Much I Want to Say: Minnesota’s First Arab Film Festival,” a street hawker pretends to call George W. Bush using a sandal, but is ironically transferred to Kofi Annan. The spontaneous skit draws an amused crowd as the hawker bumbles his words and begs Annan to visit war-torn Jenin, even promising that, if the UN Secretary...

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