February 20, 2004

07:00 PM » Armenian Film Festival

7pm: Ligne de Vie - Avedikian, Serge - French w/ English subtitles France
Roads Full of Apricots - Bezjian, Nigol English Lebanon
Tebi Gyank - Anmahouni, Hrayr Armenian US
The Duduk - Hakopian, Vardan English subtitles Armenia/Russia

9:30 The Song of Stones - Shek, Nika English subtitles Armenia
Life Is Sweet - Hakobian, Diana English Armenia
Our House - Matossian, Sevan English US

Golden Thread Productions recommends - Armenian Film Festival

For the first time in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Armenian Film Festival will showcase thirty feature-length and short films by and about Armenians.
February 20, 21, 22, 2004 - Delancey Street Theater 600 Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA (Between Brannan and Townsend Streets)
Tickets: $10.00 per screening, $60.00 full festival pass
Advanced tickets available through Ticketweb - Call 866.468.3399 or visit www.ticketweb.com
Limited number of tickets will be available at venue on day of screening.
www.armenianfilmfestival.org
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Armenian Film Festival will showcase thirty feature-length and short films by and about Armenians. Screenings will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 20, 21 and 22, 2004 at the intimate 150-seat Delancey Street Theater in San Francisco. Each screening is designed as a two-hour
program.
Selected by the same curatorial team as the highly successful New York Armenian Film Festival at the Cantor Film Center, the films range from documentary to fiction, features to shorts, and experimental to narrative by filmmakers in Armenia, the Middle-East, Europe and the Americas. The program highlights contemporary pieces that reveal a surprising breadth of approaches and issues relevant to the current moment. Across formal and geographical differences, recognizable themes of displacement, loss, memory, trauma and recognition emerge. Among them are shorts by Oscar-nominee Atom Egoyan, award-winning film maker Tina Bastajian, and "Aram," an impressive feature debut by Robert Kechichian. Other highlights include, "Music is the Air I Breathe," a documentary about the legendary "new music" vocalist, Kathy Berberian, co-presented by Other Minds Festival, "Jews in Armenia," a documentary dealing with mixed identity, "Hokees," an experimental piece about an Armenian woman and her Turkish lover.

Fiscally sponsored by Golden Thread Productions, the Armenian Film Festival is co-presented by the Film Arts Foundation, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and supported by numerous Bay Area Armenian-American individuals and organizations.
Curatorial Team: Anahid Kassabian, Film & media professor at Fordham University, NY Thea Farhadian, Interdisciplinary artist and composer Hrayr Eulmessekian, Filmmaker

Posted by talieshah at 7:00 PM

08:30 PM » The story of Shamss and Molana

SPEAKER: Dr. Arash Naraghi
TOPIC: "MAJARAI-e SHAMSS VA MOLANA"- "The story of Shamss and Molana"
LOCATION: One West Campbell Ave, Campbell, CA 95008
Roosevelt Room (Q-80)
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SCHEDULE:
Time Description
7:00 Namaz
7:20 Quran translation and interpretation by Mr. Akbari
8:00 Break
8:15 Announcements
8:30 Dr. Naraghi
9:45 Q&A
10:00 End of Program

Dr. Arash Naraghi got his doctorate degree in Pharmacology from Tehran University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara. He published a book on new understanding of Abrahamian religion and faith in 1999 (Tehran), and
has published more than 30 papers on philosophical and theological issues in Iranian journals, mainly Kiyan magazine. Dr. Naraghi translated 3 books from English to Farsi: "Reason and religious belief", "Philosophical theology", and "An introduction to epistemology". He was a member of what is known as Kiyan Circle at this time. His research interests include philosophy of religion, theology, mysticism, and epistemology.

Posted by talieshah at 8:30 PM