Nadi Cinema: The Open Door

February 26:  The Open Door (Henri Barakat, Egypt 1963)

A powerful screen adaptation of the first great Arabic coming-of-age feminist novel, told against the backdrop of revolution – a classic.

Arabic w/English subtitles – 104 minutes 

Nadi Cinema, the Middle East Film Club, screens films from across the Middle East and often beyond. All films – classics, cult favorites, recent hits, comedies, tragedies, political thrillers, social commentaries, and romances, in black-white and living color – are subtitled in English. Screenings are free and open to the public. The series is hosted by Professor Joel Gordon and generally meets bi-weekly. Come see movies the way they were filmed to be screened – in a dark theater with friends and strangers.