Sep 2016

20 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Song of Lahore

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 6:00pm
Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored By: 
Silk Screen Film Festival

Lahore used to be a mecca of Pakistani culture, a thriving center of art, music and poetry. When the Islamic government took over, strict rules were imposed that made art a punishable sin. The Sachel Studio Jazz Ensemble help show a side of Pakistan rarely seen by Western audiences: a lively, colorful place, with cultural heart. When the group’s rendition of "Take Five" achieved viral status on YouTube, they are invited to play in New York City with jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.

Contact: 
ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

20 Sep 2016

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Salam Neighbor

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Case Western Reserve University Strosacker Auditorium, 2125 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, OH 44106
Sponsored By: 
Join Us Together, Inc., Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations

Join us for a free film screening of Salam Neighbor, an award-winning feature documentary and campaign to connect the world to refugees. The filmmaker's goal is to tell the stories of our refugee neighbors with the dignity they deserve and the depth the world needs. A Q-and-A with staff from a local refugee resettlement agency and other non-profits that work with refugees and immigrants will follow the film.

20 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Short Films Presentation

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 8:00pm
Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Sponsored By: 
Silk Screen Film Festival

A Short Films Presentation, an installation in the Silk Screen Film Festival, will feature 2 short films by Iranian directors.

AUTUMN LEAVES

An elementary aged girl’s ordinary walk to school gets interrupted with some ironic results.

FISH

After breaking a fishbowl and running out of water, an old couple living in a cramped apartment must find a new home for their fish.

21 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Radio Dreams

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 6:00pm
Cranberry Cinemas, 20111 U.S. 19, Cranberry Twp, PA 16066
Sponsored By: 
Silk Screen Film Festival

Mr. Royami, an eccentric radio producer attempts to schedule an on-air collaborative jam session between an Afghan rock band and the legendary Metallica. Believing that music can go a long way towards demonstrating the kind of compassion missing from global politics, Royami tries to will into reality his most idealistic dream: watching Metallica shred with Kabul Dreams, one of Afghanistan’s premier rock bands.

Contact: 
ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

21 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Toll Bar and Coastliners

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 8:00pm
Regent Square Theater, 1035 S Braddock Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
Sponsored By: 
Silk Screen Film Festival

Toll Bar: Made with a shoestring budget of 15,000 USD, Toll Bar is the first ever film from the "Partisan Movement," a manifesto in which guerrilla filmmakers aim to create social realism while rejecting conventional cinema. Toll Bar emphasizes the stark dichotomy between the haves and the have-nots in Kazakhstan. Two men residing in the same city, with the same internal ambitions, crossing paths daily at the toll bar the same parking garage are yet divided by a massive abyss.

Contact: 
ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

21 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Memories of the Wind

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 8:30pm
Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored By: 
Silk Screen Film Festival

Rarely explored in film, Memories of the Wind tackles the Armenian genocide in a subtle, yet affecting way. Aram is a poet on the run in the winter of 1943. Suspected of being a communist sympathizer, he is forced to flee Istanbul during the latter half of World War II. He winds up in secluded expanse of forest on the Soviet-Georgian border where a boorish Turkish man named Mikhail and a beautiful young Russian woman named Meryem provide shelter.

Contact: 
ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

22 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Nawara

Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 8:00pm
Regent Square Theater, 1035 S Braddock Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
Sponsored By: 
Silk Screen Film Festival

Set against the backdrop of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Nawara lives in poverty with her grandmother because she and her husband of five years cannot afford to move in together. Despite her misfortune, Nawara remains sweet and optimistic. She works as a maid for Usama and Shahina, a couple so impressively wealthy and connected to Hosni Mubarak they take their privileged existence inside a posh gated community for granted. They understand nothing of Nawara’s world and she can only observe theirs.

Contact: 
ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

23 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Song of Lahore

Friday, September 23, 2016 - 6:00pm
Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored By: 
Silk Screen Film Festival

Lahore used to be a mecca of Pakistani culture, a thriving center of art, music and poetry. When the Islamic government took over, strict rules were imposed that made art a punishable sin. The Sachel Studio Jazz Ensemble help show a side of Pakistan rarely seen by Western audiences: a lively, colorful place, with cultural heart. When the group’s rendition of "Take Five" achieved viral status on YouTube, they are invited to play in New York City with jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.

Contact: 
ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

24 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Radio Dreams

Saturday, September 24, 2016 - 2:00pm
Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored By: 
Silk Screen Film Festival

Mr. Royami, an eccentric radio producer attempts to schedule an on-air collaborative jam session between an Afghan rock band and the legendary Metallica. Believing that music can go a long way towards demonstrating the kind of compassion missing from global politics, Royami tries to will into reality his most idealistic dream: watching Metallica shred with Kabul Dreams, one of Afghanistan’s premier rock bands.

Contact: 
ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

25 Sep 2016

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Peace, Justice & Compassion: Can our communities live peace with compassion?

Sunday, September 25, 2016 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Cafeteria Dining Room), 616 N. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Sponsored By: 
Greater Pittsburgh Interfaith Coalition

Join the Greater Pittsburgh Interfaith Coalition for a panel discussion on "Peace, Justice & Compassion: Can our communities live peace with compassion?" Free to the public, registration is encouraged.

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