Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
Established in 2003, Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF) debuts independent narrative, documentary, and experimental features and short films from more than fifteen Arabic-speaking countries and their diasporas. The festival puts SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) filmmakers at all career stages in critical dialogue with one another and with Mizna audiences. Each year, Minnesota and US audiences gather to enjoy the varied ways that SWANA artists represent and montage their social realities.
2023 Arab Film Festival Press Kit
Festival Archive
Festival Tours
Mizna Film Series
The Mizna Film Series is a monthly selection of programs marking our first venture into year-round curated film programming. The Mizna Film Series provides a space to expand our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring revolutionary forms of cinema from the SWANA region and beyond.
Arab Film Fest Collab
The Arab American National Museum (AANM), the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI), ArteEast, and Mizna presented the Arab Film Fest Collab in 2020 and 2022. The AFFC is a collectively produced virtual film festival, screening independent Arab cinema for audiences across the United States.
