My Name is Khan
Directed by Karan Johar (2010)
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014 6:00-9:00pm
Location: University of Redlands, Gregory Hall, Room 161
From iTunes:
My Name is Khan is the triumphant story of an unconventional hero and the obstacles he must overcome to regain the love of his life. Rizvan Khan, a Muslim man who has Aspergers Syndrome, moves to San Francisco and falls in love with the beautiful Mandira. They marry and have a happy life; until September 11, 2001, when attitudes towards Muslims undergo an alarming change. After a series of tragic events leaves her devastated, Mandira splits from Rizvan, leaving him alone once again. To win her back, Rizvan embarks on a touching and inspiring journey across America to clear his name and prove his love to the woman who has captured his heart.
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Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football 
Directed by Rashid Ghazi (2011)
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:00-9:00pm
Location: University of Redlands, Gregory Hall, Room 161
From the official website:
Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice for their big cross-town rivalry game during the last ten days of Ramadan, revealing a community holding onto its Islamic faith while they struggle for acceptance in post 9/11 America.
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Reel Bad Arabs 
Directed by Sut Jhally (2006)
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:00-9:00pm
Location: University of Redlands, Gregory Hall, Room 161
From official website:
This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.
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Persepolis 
Directed by Vincent Parronaud & Marjane Satrapi (2007)
Date: Friday, March 21, 2014 7:00-9:00pm
Location: University of Redlands, Casa Loma Room
From the official website:
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power.... The title Persepolis comes from the Persian capital founded in the 6th century B.C. by Darius I, later destroyed by Alexander the Great. It's a reminder that there's an old and grand civilization, besieged by waves of invaders but carrying on through milennia, that is much deeper and more complex than the current-day view of Iran as a monoculture of fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism.
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5 Broken Cameras 
Directed by Emat Burnat & Guy Davidi (2011)
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014 7:00-9:00pm
Location: University of Redlands, Gregory Hall, Room 161
From the official website:
The first-ever Palestinian film to be nominated for best Documentary Feature by A.M.P.A.S®, the critically-acclaimed 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker. Structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village upheaval. As the years pass in front of the camera, we witness Gibreel grow from a newborn baby into a young boy who observes the world unfolding around him with the astute powers of perception that only children possess. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify and lives are lost in this cinematic diary and unparalleled record of life in the West Bank.
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