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Special OC Screening of "The Other Son"

Event Details
Date/Time: 
May 23 2013 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Price: 
$10 advance, $8 members/students, $12 at the door.
RSVPs strongly recommended as refreshments will be served.
Call 323.413.2001
Click here to buy tickets
Where: 
Laguna Hills Community Center
25555 Alicia Pkwy
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Info line 949.707.2680
Subtitle: 
a cross-cultural drama in which every character comes alive

Imagine that you had been switched at birth with a baby from another family...and just found out...

The Levantine Cultural Center will present the feature film The Other Son at the Laguna Hills Community Center on Thurs.., May 23, 7:00 pm. The Other Son is an unusually provocative "switched at birth" tale that captures the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. French director Lorraine Levy presides over an excellent international cast (the film is in Arabic, Hebrew, French and English with subtitles) that effectively conveys all the emotion wrought from the pain and joys of family drama. The screening will be followed by a public conversation with filmmaker-educator Mildred Lewis (bio follows below). Light refreshments will be served. This screening is consponsored by Ms. Bana Hilal, Souhail Toubia, MD, the Council on American Islamic Relations of Greater Los Angeles and the Cousins Club of Orange County.

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

Event Details
Date/Time: 
Apr 18 2013 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Price: 
$8/$6 members/students
Where: 
Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
Between La Cienega and Fairfax
street parking
Subtitle: 
a documentary screening and public conversation

Join us in the Levantine café for a film salon. This probing, definitive documentary about American academic Norman Finkelstein reveals a devoted son of Holocaust survivors who is an ardent critic of Israel and US Middle East policy. The author of several provocative books, including The Holocaust Industry and most recently Knowing Too Much, Why the American Jewish Romance With Israel is Coming to an End, Finkelstein has been at the center of many intractable controversies. This screening is cosponsored by The Friends of Film, a Year-Round Festival. Norman Finkelstein will be speaking in Orange County on April 23 and in Los Angeles on April 25, 2013

Iran Documentary Night: "The Green Wave" & "The Iran Job"

Event Details
Date/Time: 
Mar 14 2013 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Price: 
$8 general, $6 members/students with ID; $12 for 2 films
seating limited, RSVPs strongly advised, 323.413.2001

"The Green Wave" screens at 6:30; "The Iran Job" screens at 8 pm.
Where: 
Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
Between La Cienega & Fairfax
street parking
Subtitle: 
in honor of the Persian New Year, Nowruz, two films celebrate the Iranian people

To celebrate the month of March and the advent of the Persian New Year or Nowruz, the Levantine Cultural Center presents two feature-length documetaries from 2012 that celebrate the Iranian people. The Green Wave, directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi and distributed in the U.S. by Red Flag Releasing, is a powerful political film that reveals what happened during the 2009 election protests, when millions of people took to the streets. The Iran Job, directed by Till Schauder, is a great basketball movie about an American from the Caribbean who leads an Iranian team in Shiraz. In both films the people of Iran are the heroes. The Green Wave (80 ms) screens at 6:30 pm; The Iran Job (93 ms.) screens at 8 pm.

AMERICANS, ISRAELIS & PALESTINIANS SCREEN, DISCUSS "THE OTHER SON"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For inquiries, please contact Lulwa Bordcosh 
or Kameron Myles
310.657.5511

AMERICANS, ISRAELIS & PALESTINIANS SCREEN, DISCUSS
"THE OTHER SON" WED., FEB. 20, 7:30 PM

[February 7th 2013] In its on-going series examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Levantine Cultural Center will present The Other Son on Wed., Feb. 20th, 7:30 pm at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills. The Other Son is a provocative "switched at birth" tale that captures the essence of the struggle between Israeli and Palestinian peoples. French director Lorraine Levy presides over an excellent international cast (the film is in Arabic, Hebrew, French and English, with subtitles) that effectively conveys all the emotion wrought from the pain and joys of family drama. Following the screening is a film conversation with UCLA history professor Gabriel Piterberg, former UN consultant and Egypt Today editor Lulwa Bordcosh, and LA Times critic Steven Zeitchik (moderator). Info/tix: 323.413.2001, or visit levantinecenter.org.

Pakistan & the Girnari Jogi Groove, a night of film, art and music

Event Details
Date/Time: 
Feb 22 2013 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Price: 
$12 general admission/$10 Levantine members/students with ID
$15 at the door
Where: 
Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
Between La Cienega & Fairfax
ample street parking or in CVS underground lot
till 10 pm only!
Subtitle: 
an evening devoted to Pakistan and Central Asian cultures

Pakistan and the Girnari Jogi Groove is an evening of art, music & film devoted to Pakistani and Central Asian cultures with a live musical performance by Tablapusher, plus a special screening of music performances by the Girnari Jogi Group and a film screening of the inventive animated short film Gul by Adnan Hussain. The Girnari Jogi group is a small ensemble of 7th and 8th generation musicians based out of Sindh, Pakistan. Jogis (not to be confused with yogis) are traditionally snake charmers who use the enchanting sounds of the murli to entrance snakes, humans and jinns.

Special Screening of Israeli/Palestinian feature, "The Other Son"

Event Details
Date/Time: 
Feb 20 2013 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Price: 
$10 advance, $8 members/students, $12 at the door
Where: 
Laemmle Music Hall
9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Parking in lot off Doheny just west of Wishire, $3 or $5
Subtitle: 
a cross-cultural drama in which every character comes alive

The Levantine Cultural Center will present the feature film The Other Son Wed., Feb. 20th, 7:30 pm at the Laemmle Music Hall, followed by a film panel. The Other Son is an unusually provocative "switched at birth" tale that captures the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. French director Lorraine Levy presides over an excellent international cast (the film is in Arabic, Hebrew, French and English with subtitles) that effectively conveys all the emotion wrought from the pain and joys of family drama. The screening will be followed by film conversation with UCLA professor Gabi Piterberg, former UN consultant and Egypt Today editor Lulwa Bordcosh, and LA Times critic Steven Zeitchik (moderator). This screening is consponsored in a part by the Council on American Islamic Relations of Greater Los Angeles and the Los Angeles chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.

SCREENING OF AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY, ROAD MAP TO APARTHEID EXPLORES SOUTH AFRICAN AND ISRAELI APARTHEID

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

For inquiries, please contact Lulwa Bordcosh or Kameron Myles

310.657.5511

 

 

SCREENING OF AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY, ROAD MAP TO APARTHEID EXPLORES SOUTH AFRICAN AND ISRAELI APARTHEID

THUR FEB 7, 2013 AT THE LEVANTINE CULTURAL CENTER


 

[Los Angeles—January 30, 2013] The Levantine Cultural Center and The Friends Of Film Year-Round Festival  present a one-night only screening of the multi award-winning documentary, Roadmap to Apartheid, on Thursday, Feb 7th at 7:30pm at the LCC, 5998 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles 90035. The screening is cosponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace-Los Angeles.

"Roadmap to Apartheid" Screening & Film Talk

Event Details
Date/Time: 
Feb 7 2013 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Price: 
$10 general, $7 members and students with ID
doors 7 pm, film 7:30 pm
Click here to buy tickets
Where: 
Levantine Cultural Center
5998 West Pico Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90035
Between La Cienega & Fairfax
Ample street parking and in CVS underground lot
closes at 10 pm
Subtitle: 
a documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israel and Palestine, controversial foes, two peoples locked in an inescapable relationship. But can Israel be "the only democracy in the Middle East" when rights for Arabs in Israel and the occupied territories are unequal? The Friends Of Film Year-Round Festival and the Levantine Cultural Center present a one-night only screening of Roadmap to Apartheid, cosponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace-Los Angeles, on Thursday, Feb 7th, 2013 at the LCC at 7:30pm. Admission is $10/$7 members and students with ID.

MULTI-MEDIA ART EXHIBIT HONORS MUSICAL HERITAGE OF CENTRAL, SOUTH ASIA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

For inquiries, please contact Lulwa Bordcosh or Kameron Myles

310.657.5511

 

 

GALLERY DEVOTED TO THE MIDDLE EAST HOSTS MULTI-MEDIA ART EXHIBIT HONORING THE MUSICAL HERITAGE OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA

 

[Los Angeles-January 24, 2013] From Feb. 2-March 15, the Levantine Cultural Center's Inside/Outside Gallery presents "The Art of Music" by Adnan Hussain. The multi-media exhibition, with an artist's reception on Feb. 2, 7-10 pm, and concert dates on Feb. 8 and Feb. 22, both at 8 pm, will feature Hussain's paintings, along with music and film inspired by the cultural heritage of Central and South Asia.

Our Take on "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Argo"

Subtitle: 
While two films on the Middle East and their directors get all the attention, "Cloud Atlas" and "This Is Not a Film" deserve praise.

By Omid Arabian

Awards season is upon us again, and two of the most lauded films of the year deal with American involvement in the Middle East. At the top of seemingly everyone's list is Zero Dark Thirty—an account of the CIA's hunt for Osama Bin Laden, as told by director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal (Oscar winners for 2009's The Hurt Locker). The film has dusted up a sandstorm of controversy, with various politicians outraged by its suggestion that torturing prisoners was instrumental in the eventual discovery and capture of Bin Laden. On the critical front, however, the film is being almost unanimously praised for (among other things) its unflinching, objective, bias-free approach to historical events. As if such a thing were possible.