2016 DC Palestinian Film + Arts Festival

The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival (DCPFAF) is returning for the sixth year, October 5-9, 2016, bringing 33 films, five talks, and one mind-blowing visual exhibit to the District. See the program at dcpfaf.org/program. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5 - Performances at the Portal | 12pm | District Architecture Center (DAC) | $10 - Portal to Diaspora | 1:30pm | DAC | FREE - Opening Reception & Keynote w/Iman Fayyad + Amar Bakshi | 6:30pm | DAC | FREE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 - Portal to Gaza | 8am | DAC | FREE - Performances at the Portal | 12pm | DAC | $10 - Portal to Diaspora | 1:30pm | DAC | FREE - Speed Sisters - The Film | 7:30pm | Landmark's E Street Cinema | $12 reg / $10 w/student ID FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 - Portal to Gaza | 8am | DAC | FREE - Performances at the Portal | 12pm | DAC | $10 - Portal to Diaspora | 1:30pm | DAC | FREE - Seamstress + Q&A w/ Donia Jarrar | 5:30pm | DAC | $10 reg / $7 w/student ID - Sharper Image: Occupation in Focus | 7pm | Regal Cinemas Gallery Place 14 (Regal) | $12 reg / $10 w/student ID - Love, Theft and other Entanglements | 9pm | Regal | $12 reg / $10 w/student ID SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 - Breakfast with Gaza | 8am | DAC | FREE - Performances at the Portal | 12pm | DAC | $10 - Filming Gaza | 1pm | DAC | $10 - Fleeing, Coping, Surviving: Short Films from Syria | 2:30pm | DAC | $10 - Spotlight on Global Migration w/Tomas Ayuso | 4:30pm | DAC | $10 - مفرق 48 Junction | 7:00pm | Regal | $12 / $10 - Degrade | 9:30pm | Regal | $12 reg / $10 w/student ID SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 - Home Sweet Home | 10:30am | Regal | $12 reg / $10 w/student ID - Letters from Al Yarmouk- رسائل من اليرموك | Noon 12pm | Regal | $12 reg / $10 w/student ID - Placed & Displaced: Palestinian Shorts | 1:30pm | Regal | $12 reg / $10 w/student ID - A Conversation with Mai Masri | 3pm | Regal | FREE - Palestinian Futurism w/ M. Asli Dukan | 5pm | Regal | $12 reg / $10 w/student ID - 3000 Nights / ٣٠٠٠ ليلة + Q&A w/Mai Masri | 7pm | Regal | $12 reg / $10 w/student ID Tickets and program info at dcpfaf.org/program This year's festival, Palestine Across the Diaspora: Stories on Home and Migration, explores ideas of home across a diaspora as diverse as it vast. In cooperation with Shared Studios, #DCPFAF16 will center around an immersive Palestinian architecture exhibit at the District Architecture Center, featuring A Portal to Gaza City, Palestine, a virtual portal connecting visitors with Palestinians across the diaspora. Special Performances at the Portal will connect artists in Palestine and DC from 12pm - 1pm, Wednesday through Saturday. Learn more and sign up for the portal: https://goo.gl/yBRLwZ