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Exclusive to our Mizna community—we are happy to offer a chance to see three SWANA indie films premiering in Minnesota at the Walker Art Center as part of the Film Independent Spirit Awards program. Through Mizna’s partnership with Walker and FilmNorth, we are making fifty free seats for these films available to Mizna folks.

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Tickets are available on a first-come basis. All reservations must be made by 11 am the day of the event.

January 27, 2024 at 1 pm: Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania (Best Documentary)

Winner of the Best Documentary prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Four Daughters is a riveting cinematic exploration of rebellion, memory and sisterhood about a Tunisian woman whose two eldest daughters were radicalized. Casting professional actresses as the missing daughters, along with acclaimed Egyptian-Tunisian actress Hend Sabri as Olfa, Oscar-nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin) re-stages pivotal moments in the family’s life. These scenes are interwoven with confessions and reflections from Olfa and her younger daughters, offering the women agency to tell their own story and capturing moments of joy, loss, violence and heartache. 

February 7, 2024 at 6pm: The Mother of All Lies, Asmae El Moudir (Best Documentary)

On a handmade set recreating her Casablanca neighborhood, young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir enlists family and friends to help solve the troubling mysteries of her childhood. There, she starts to unravel the layers of deception and intentional forgetting that have shaped her life.         

—text from Film Independent

February 8, 2024 at 7pm: Bye Bye Tiberias, Lina Soualem (Best Documentary)

Pop-up bar opens for beverage service in the lobby one hour before the screening.

Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.

—text from Film Independent