Fresno Filmworks - MENA: Middle East North African Mini Film Festival

MENA Film Festival — Middle East & North Africa A Community Film Screening Event

Join us for an evening of powerful storytelling from the Middle East and North Africa region. The MENA Mini Film Festival brings together three compelling films that illuminate the lives, struggles, and humanity of people across the MENA world.

Date & Time: Saturday, April 11, 2026 | 1:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Old Administration Auditorium, Fresno City College (1101 E University Ave, Fresno CA 93741)

Parking: FREE Parking is available on campus

Food & Refreshments: Details on food and refresments will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

Film trailers and descriptions below.

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival and was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards.

Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to get her home and her belongings back and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality.

The film won the Audience Award at the Venice Spotlight section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival and was selected as the Moroccan submission for the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. Wikipedia

Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal's identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor.

The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film at the 2026 Academy Awards. Wikipedia

Info: January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her

Info: When her daughter arrives in Tangier to sell the family apartment, a fiercely independent 79-year-old Spanish woman fights to keep her home

Info: An Iranian auto mechanic kidnaps the man he believes tortured him and gathers fellow ex-prisoners to confirm his identity, setting off a darkly comic thriller about doubt, persecution, and revenge.

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