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Join us on October 30, 2026 at 8pm for a special halloween screening of Fangs (Anyab) in Los Angeles at Scribble, hosted by Mizna.

In 2026, Mizna celebrates the twentieth edition of our flagship program, the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival. We mark this milestone with a year-long, 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 continually plundered, twisted, and aligned to colonial narratives, this year, Mizna’s film programming considers what overlooked, liberatory lessons the past might offer the present and future. With this goal in mind, we present selections by former Mizna festival curators alongside new restorations of SWANA cinema, drawing radical new meanings from the objects that remain.

Join us on October 30, 2026 at 7pm for the fourth screening of our quarterly film program, Mizna Film Series, presenting a Halloween screening of Fangs (Anyab) by Mohammed Shebl.

WHAT: Fangs (Anyab) LA Halloween Screening
WHEN: Friday October 30, 7:30pm doors/ 8pm movie
WHERE: Scribble,  5541 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042
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ABOUT FANGS (ANYAB)

(1981, DCP, 100m, Arabic, w/ English Subtitles) dir Mohammed Shebl. Egypt’s answer to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this delirious musical-horror oddity follows two innocent lovers who stumble into a nightclub of disco-dancing vampires, rock ‘n’ roll numbers, and campy bloodsucking mayhem. Cairo meets Transylvania in a cult curio that’s equal parts satire, singalong, and surreal nightmare. Mohammed Shebl’s 1981 adaptation isn’t just a cult classic, Fangs (Anyab) is also an astute commentary on the Egyptian socio-political climate all wrapped up in disco, glam, and vampire fangs! —Cultpix