{"id":261524,"date":"2026-04-10T19:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261524\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:43:23","slug":"fresno-filmworks-presents-the-mena-film-festival-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261524\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Filmworks Presents the MENA Film Festival on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Old Administration Building Auditorium at Fresno City College will be the scene of Fresno Filmworks newest venture, the MENA Film Festival, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

MENA Film Festival<\/p>\n

When: Saturday, 1:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Old Administration Building Auditorium, Fresno City College <\/p>\n

Organizers promise an afternoon and evening of powerful storytelling from the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n

The event features three films that illuminate the lives, struggles, and humanity of people across the MENA world.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $10 per film or $24 for a festival pass to see all three films. Tickets may be purchased online\u00a0through this link<\/a>\u00a0or at the door.<\/p>\n

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Free parking is available on campus.<\/p>\n

Sponsors include Quady Sweet and Aperitif Wines, KVPR\/NPR, and Donaghy Sales.<\/p>\n

Here is the schedule:<\/p>\n

1:30 p.m. \u2014\u00a0The Voice of Hind Rajab\u00a0(2025, Dir. Kaouther Ben Hania | 89 min)<\/p>\n

Synopsis: Jan. 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.<\/p>\n

4 p.m. \u2014\u00a0Calle M\u00e1laga\u00a0(2025, Maryam Touzani | 116 minutes)<\/p>\n

Synopsis: When her daughter arrives in Tangier to sell the family apartment, a fiercely independent 79-year-old Spanish woman fights to keep her home.<\/p>\n

7 p.m. \u2014\u00a0It Was Just an Accident\u00a0(2025, Jafar Panahi | 105 minutes)<\/p>\n

Synopsis: 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Old Administration Building Auditorium at Fresno City College will be the scene of Fresno Filmworks newest venture,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-261524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}