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Mizna’s 20th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival holds its closing day with a pair of special screenings and a closing reception co-presented with and at the Walker Art Center.

At 5:15pm, join us for the closing reception in the Walker Lobby with light refreshments catered by Baba’s Hummus House. Learn more here.

At 7pm, join us for the closing screening featuring Bouchra by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki.

WHEN: September 27 at 7pm
WHERE: Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN 55403

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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Mizna celebrates the twentieth edition of the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, embracing the theme Looking Forward, Looking Back, September 23–27, 2026, at the Main Cinema and Walker Art Center.

🐣 EARLY BIRD PASSES 🐣

Early bird all-access passes and four-packs of tickets are available now at a discounted price through September 1, 2026. Passes are limited, get them before they run out!

Learn more + get passes at tcaff26.eventive.org

ABOUT THE FILM

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Based on a real-life conversation shared by co-director Meriem Bennani and her own mother, Bouchra (co-directed with Orian Barki and co-written by them and Ayla Mrabet) opens with a phone call. Aicha (Yto Barrada) is checking in on her daughter from Morocco when Bouchra (Bennani) broaches a subject they’ve been avoiding for almost a decade. Stuck creatively, the latter has decided to find emotional catharsis through a script about the complex dynamic shared with her parents and seeks context from the opposite side. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression.