November @ Zeitgeist

November @ Zeitgeist 1618 Oretha C Haley Blvd

www.zeitgeistinc.net

(The Saturn Building) Sunday

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7: 30 Movie: Yes Men Save the World

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Yes Men Save the World

Yes Men Save the World

Yes Men Save the World

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Failures Union, Cheap Girls, Rougarou & The Silent Game

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7: 30 Movie:

Yes Men Save the World

Yes Men…

9: 30 Music: Bee Vs. Moth + Neckbeard

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MIDDLE EAST FILM FESTIVAL…

“ 11 amazing nights with food, music, visual arts and films celebrating Middle Eastern culture”

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Movies: 5:30 - Hank Williams First Nation 7:30 – AMREEKA (Palestine/US/Canada) 9:30 – Until the Light Takes Us (US/Norway)

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Movies: 5:30 - Hank Williams First Nation 7:30 – AMREEKA 9:30 – Until the Light Takes Us

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8:00 Music: James Singleton + Georg Grewe

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8:00 Music: Tabula Rasa

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9:30 Music: Aiua; Scout; My Empty Phantom 4

Bicycle Film Festival Dec. 4th – 6th www.bicyclefilmfestival.com

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BACK BY POPULAR REQUEST! November 2 thru 4 and 6 thru 11 @ 7:30 p.m. THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world and announces that Dow will finally clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe. The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow's stock value loses two billion dollars. Before 1000 New Orleans contractors alongside Mayor Ray Nagin, the layers of lies are peeled back to reveal the raw heart of truth - a truth that brings with it hope. Hope explodes at the end of this film with a power that may take audiences straight out of the theater and into the barricades.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15: 1:30 p.m. – MY FATHER AND MY SON (Turkish drama about a political prisoner’s return to his village with his 7 year old son) 3:30 p.m. – REMNANTS OF WAR (Lebanon activists deal with removing the remnants of deadly Israeli cluster bombs) 5:30 p.m. – NEW ORLEANS HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATION (Palestine)* (reports from New Orleans artists & activists who went on a humanitarian mission to Gaza) 7:30 p.m. – GAZA DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: Program I (Palestine) (STRANGER IN MY HOME: JERUSALEM & THE SHIP; profiles work of peace activists) 9:30 p.m. – FILMS OF CHRISTOPHE KARABASCHE: Program II (Palestine)* (experimental documentaries about roving Bedouins and kurds by the visiting French filmmaker from Beirut)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 @ 7:00 P.M. FAILURES UNION, CHEAP GIRLS, ROUGAROU and THE SILENT GAME in concert.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16: 5:30 p.m. – CHRONICLES OF A REFUGEE: NAKBA DALIES (Palestine)* (recounts the events of 1947-48 in Palestine) 7:30 p.m. – GAZA DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: Program II (Palestine) (ARTHUR BALFOUR AND ME; 25 KILOMETERES and THE EXODUS AND THE ODDYSSEY) 9:30 p.m. – FILMS OF TAGREED SAADEH & LIFESOURCE (Palestine)* (docs on the Siege of Gaza by the visiting Palestinian/Canadian filmmaker plus docs and a presentation on Israel’s violation of Palestine’s water rights)

Saturday, November 7 @ 9:30 p.m. BEE VS. MOTH (experimental instrumental music from Austin, TX) with NECKBEARD (NOLA) in concert. Sunday, November 8 @ 5:00 p.m. JESSE BRADLEY poet/performance artist based out of Orlando, FL performs from his collection of poems DODGING TRAFFIC.

NEW ORLEANS MIDDLE EAST FILM FESTIVAL: nolamideastfilmfest.blogspot.com THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12: 6:00 p.m. – Opening Reception featuring food from Attiki 7:30 p.m. – LEARNING FROM LIGHT: VISIONS OF I.M. PEI (famed architects spends a year studying Middle Eastern art & culture to design for the Islamic Museum of Art in Doha, Qatar) 9:30 p.m. – SLINGSHOT HIP HOP (Palestinian hip hop doc) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13: 5:30 p.m. – LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL (doc on Palestinian prisoners in Israel) 7:30 p.m. – THE OLIVE HARVEST (Palestinian love story, Palestine’s 2008 official Academy Award entry) 9:30 p.m. – TASTE OF THE REVOLUTION (doc on Palestine’s first beer brewery) AFGHAN MUSCLE (doc on Afghanistan’s postTaliban obsession with body building) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14: 1:30 p.m. – SAUDI SOLUTIONS (profile of five very powerful business women working in Saudi Arabia) 3:30 p.m. – VEILED VOICES and SHEIKA STORIES (profiles dynamic women living and working in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria) 5:30 p.m. – VOICES BEYOND WALLS – YOUTH VISIONS OF JERUSALEM (Youth media produced by kids in Palestine) 7:30 p.m. – A FEW KILOS OF DATES (a dark comedy about lonely men at a remote gas station looking for love in Iran) 9:30 p.m. – FILMS OF CHRISTOPHE KARABACHE: Program I (Lebanon) * (experimental documentaries on the aftermath of war)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17: 5:30 p.m. – CHRONICLES OF A REFUGEE: DAILY NAKBAS (Palestine)* (the experience of Palestinian refugees worldwide from 1967 to 2007 presented by visiting filmmaker Adam Shapiro) 7:30 p.m. – GAZA DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: Program III (Palestine) (ONE OF; SABRA & SHATILA and FROM THE CAMP; if the bombs don’t kill them…) 9:30 p.m. – B.H. YAEL’S PALESTINE TRILOGY (Palestine)* (DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED; EVEN IN THE DESERT and A HOT, SANDFILLED WORLD plus a Q&A with visiting Canadian filmmaker) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18: 5:30 p.m. – CHRONICLES OF A REFUGEE: HOMELAND WITHOUT ID (PAPERS) (Palestine)* (governments treat Palestinians not from a rights perspective, but a “security” one) 7:30 p.m. - TATIL KITABI (SUMMER BOOK) (Turkish drama about the family affairs of three generations of men) 9:30 p.m. – EGYPT WE ARE WATCHING YOU (Egypt) (doc on Egypt’s recent election from the directors of the Control Room) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19: 5:30 p.m. – CHRONICLES OF A REFUGEE: IDENTITY WITHPUT A HOMELAND (Palestine) * (60 years of dispossession and refugee status around the world) 7:30 p.m. – BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME (Iranian drama about a young girl trying to go to school in Afghanistan) 9:30 p.m. – SHIRIN (Legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s latest film experiment about the effects a love story has on the ravishingly beautiful women who watch it)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20: 5:30 p.m. – CHRONICLES OF A REFUGEE: TALK ABOUT A RETURN (Palestine) * (what work remains to be done?) 7:30 p.m. – MOMMO (THE BOGEYMAN) (A haunting drama about childhood from Anatolia/Turkey) – U.S. Premiere. 9:30 p.m. – THE SONG OF SPARROWS (an Iranian ostrich farmer turned taxi driver is corrupted by the big city) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21: 1:30 p.m. – SYRIA: CHESS MATCH AT THE BOARDERS 3:30 p.m. – CHRONICLES OF A REFUGEE: RETURN OF THE TALK (Palestine) * (grassroots, activist and elite perspectives on the history and strategy of the Palestinian national movement) 5:30 p.m. – CAIRO STATION (50th Anniversary of Chahine’s Egyptian masterpiece of sexual repression and desire) 7:30 p.m. – GARBAGE DREAMS (profiles young men who make a living off recycling Cairo, Egypt’s garbage) 9:30 p.m. – CITY OF DREAMS (award-winning doc on Jerusalem’s only gay bar, a haven to both Palestinian & Israeli gays) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22: 1:30 p.m. – SALATA BALADI (EGYPTIAN SALAD) (An Egyptian feminist filmmaker makes multi-ethnic family fairytales to teach her nephew how women should be treated) 3:30 p.m. – RECYCLE (a portrait of the people of Zarqa, Jordan known as birthplace of Al qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi) 5:30 p.m. – CHECKPOINT ROCK (a doc Palestinian music) 7:30 p.m. – AMREEKA (Palestine) + CLOSING PARTY November 24 through December 1 @ 5:30 p.m. HANK WILLIAMS FIRST NATION. A native Canadian comedy road movie about the people who stayed at home. A tribal elder and his nephew set off on a journey to visit Hank Williams’ grave believing he was a lost member of their tribe. November 24 through December 1 @ 7:30 p.m. AMREEKA by Cherien Dabis. Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a Palestinian single mother who leaves the West Bank in Ramallah with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up burgers (and the occasional falafel) at the local White Castle. Shot in Ramallah and Winnipeg, this Palestinian/Canadian comedy won the International Critics Prize at Cannes. November 24 through December 1 @ 9:30 p.m. (except the 29th) UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US. A documentary on the Norwegian Death Metal cult’s rash of church burnings and suicides. Saturday, November 29 @ 9:30 p.m. AIUA, MY PHANTOM & SCOUT in concert Wednesday, December 2 @ 8:00 p.m. JAMES SINGLETON & GEORG GREWE in concert Thursday, December 3 @ 8:00 p.m. TABULA RASA in concert