(Moroccan film) Door to the Sky

Film:  DOOR TO THE SKY

Morocco, 1988
107 minutes
Arabic with English subtitles

WHEN: 
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008
7:00 pm

WHERE:
Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst
School of Management
Room 137 

COST:   FREE

INFO:   http://www.umass.edu/fac/calendar/asian/events/Film32.html

FILM DESCRIPTION:

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.