Middle East Film Festival
Posters for Goodbye Julia, About Dry Grasses, No Other Land, and World War III.
The 2025 Middle East Film Festival will take place from March 25th through April 14th.
See the full schedule below, and click on each link for more information about the film and the screening.
All films will be screened with English subtitles and are free and open to the public!
Location: Texas Union Theatre, room 2.228, 2308 Whitis Ave, Austin, TX 78712
Just before the secession of South Sudan, a married former singer from the north seeks redemption for causing the death of a southern man by hiring his oblivious wife as her maid. This the award-winning Sudanese film represents the complicated relationship and differences between northern and southern Sudanese communities through the story of two women, one Muslim and one Christian.
In this film by the eminent Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.
The Oscar-winning documentary film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective. For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist. No Other Land is an unflinching account of a search for a path towards equality and justice.
World War III is an Iranian thriller drama that begins as a black comedy and becomes darker. Directed, co-written, produced, and edited by Houman Seyyedi, the film is about Shakib (Mohsen Tanabandeh), a homeless day laborer who lost his wife and son in an earthquake years ago and is now working as a construction worker on a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during World War II.