2026 Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
The Main Cinema + Walker Art Center
- 09/23/2026 - 09/27/2026
Event details
This September, Mizna celebrates the twentieth edition of the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival. We have been marking this milestone with an ongoing, multi-venue program, Looking Forward, Looking Back, which centers images from the history of SWANA filmmaking and our past festivals. Through this framework, we confront the visual record, demanding more from the archive than a sentimental look at the past. While SWANA films have been repeatedly plundered, twisted, and aligned to colonial narratives, this year, our festival continues to consider what has been overlooked, discovering liberatory lessons the past might offer the present and future. The 20th anniversary edition of our festival presents special screenings, guests, and more.
WHEN: September 23–27, 2026
WHERE: The Main Cinema with closing day at the Walker Art Center
Program highlights have been announced! Learn more here
🐣 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!
Major support for the Arab Film Fest is provided by the Minnesota Humanities Center with funds from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.