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Film: Door to the Sky
New Asia Cinema: Arab Cinema Panorama


Wednesday, September 17
School of Management Room 137   7:00 pm
Free and open to the public
Director: Farida Ben Lyzaid
Morocco, 1988
107 minutes
Arabic with English subtitles
In Door to the Sky, director Farida Ben Lyzaid, sensitively explores the rediscovery of identity of a young woman who returns to Fez, Morocco from France and turns her father's palatial home into a Muslim women's shelter. This film is preceded by the short film Under the Sun by director Ali Mostafa.

Funding assistance for the Arab Cinema Panorama has been provided by the: Five College Film Council, the Five Colleges Lecture Fund and the College of Social and Behavioral Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

 
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