Film

17 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Very Big Shot

Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 8:30pm
Regent Square Theater, 1035 S Braddock Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
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A caper inspired by Ben Affleck's Argo, Very Big Shot is the dryly comedic story of a criminally-minded pizza shop owner . With the help of his brothers, Ziad, a small scale drug-dealer turned movie producer decides to smuggle cocaine using film equipment. Adapted from writer/director Chaaya’s own award-winning short “Filmmakers.”

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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
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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.

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ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

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

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: 
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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: 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

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
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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.

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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
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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.

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ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

19 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Memories of the Wind

Monday, September 19, 2016 - 6:00pm
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

16 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: El Clasico

Friday, September 16, 2016 - 7:00pm
Regent Square Theater, 1035 S Braddock Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
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Silk Screen Film Festival

When his girlfriend's father rejects his marriage proposal, Alan enlists the help of his brother Shirwan and travels from Iraq to Madrid to prove his worth and deliver a pair of homemade shoes to soccer star Christiano Ronaldo.

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ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

18 Sep 2016

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Silk Screen Film Festival presents: Toll Bar and Coastliners

Sunday, September 18, 2016 - 4:15pm
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.

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ALEX@SILKSCREENFESTIVAL.ORG

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