Full screening schedule HERE

NEW YORK PREMIERE
21st Reel Sisters of the Diaspora
October 21 at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
 
CANADIAN PREMIERE
42nd Montreal World Film Festival
September 2 at 4:00PM
Director in attendance
Tickets are available here

US PREMIERE
10th edition of MARFA FILM FESTIVAL (chosen as an opening film for the festival)
July 11 at 8:30PM
Lead actress in attendance
Tickets are available here

EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Festival Des Cinémas Arabes - Festival of Arab Cinema (IMA/Arab World Institute)
July 5 at 4:30PM
Director in attendance
Tickets are available here

I SAY DUST playing now on Sundance TV

I COME FROM FUTURE
science fiction short story published in Blind Spot (The english version of French Angle Mort) // July 2016

IMAGINE THE CITY
science fiction stage play published in Qahwa Project issue 3 MENASA FUTURISM (April 2017)
 

Science fiction texts part of 'Halcyon' exhibition for Transart Institute Triennale
Curated by Rachel Dedman

'I Come From Future' and 'The Flukian', two science fiction short stories by Darine Hotait will take part in this exhibition, text prints and readings.

Halcyon is a research and exhibition space which brings together artists and writers using the critical possibilities of science-fiction to address contemporary urgencies surrounding identity, placehood, conflict, landscape, technology, architecture, futurity and time.

Berlin . August 5-7, 2016 at Uferstudios
London. August 10, 2016 at Mosaic Rooms

Photos by Rachel Dedman // Graphics and text design by Studio Zumra

TALKS

Panel Discussion at 13th Arab Film Festival at Cinetopia Film Festival

New Reflections on Arab American Representation in the Media

Speakers:
Darine Hotait, Maha Chehlaoui & Ali Abbas.

Location: Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan. 
Date: June 9, 2018.
Time: 4:30-6pm

RSVP Here

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

. LISBON, PORTUGAL
Masterclass organized by 5th Olhares Do Mediterraneo
Date: September 29 | 2PM-5PM
VALSA

. NEW YORK CITY
Literary Adaptation Workshop
Dates: Mondays, August 13th, 20th, 27th and Tuesday, September 4th
Time: 6PM-9PM
Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW)
To register HERE

. PARIS, FRANCE
Cinephilia Screenwriting Lab for Shorts
Dates: June 26-July 8, 2018
In Collaboration with Institut Du Monde Arabe/Arab World Institute and The Festival of Arab Cinema in Paris

Call for applications opens on March 15, 2018.  
To apply Here

. DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Screenwriting Workshop
Dates: June 1-3, 2018
Presented as part of 13th Arab Film Festival at Cinetopia Film Festival.
Location: Arab American Museum
To register Here