Rice Cinema

We hope everyone is doing well after the severe weather yesterday.

Rice Cinema is pleased to announce that the 17th annual Palestine Film Festival will move forward as scheduled; however, we encourage attendees to exercise caution and plan ahead, checking that roads and paths are clear and accessible prior to leaving their homes.

All screenings will take place at Rice Cinema, Sewall Hall room 301, commencing this evening with opening remarks at 6:30 p.m. by festival president Ahmed Ghoneim as well as artist director Ola Al Sheikh, followed by a performance by the Al-Zaytouna Band.

The film festival is taking place May 17–19, showcasing a variety of narrative, documentary, and short films. To purchase tickets or to learn more visit HPFF.org

Friday, May 17:
7:00 PM
“Bye Bye Tiberias”
Directed by Lina Soualem
(Palestine, 2023, 82 min.)
Preceded by short film “The Key”

Saturday, May 18:
12:00 PM
“Three Promises”
Directed by Yousef Srouji
(Palestine, 2023, 61 min.)
Saturday, May 18 12:00 PM
Preceded by the short film “Zoo”

3:00 PM
“Inshallah a Boy”
Directed by Amjad Al Rasheed
(Jordan, 2023, 113 min.)
Preceded by short film “Hamza: Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me”

7:00 PM
“The Teacher”
Directed by Farah Nabulsi
(UK/Palestine, 2023, 115 min.)
Saturday, May 18 at 7:00 PM
Preceded by short film “Trying to Survive”

Sunday, May 19:
3:00 PM
“A House in Jerusalem”
Directed by Muayad Alayan
(Palestine, 2023, 103 min.)
Preceded by short film “Mar Mama”

7:00 PM
“Lyd”
Directed by Sarah Ema Friedland and Rami Younis
(Palestine, 2023, 78 min.)
Preceded by short film “An Orange from Jaffa”

To learn more visit HPFF.org or cinema.rice.edu.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at HPFF.org

Discounted parking available at Founder’s Court Visitor lot at a flat rate of $6, credit or debt card required.

Join us this week for 2 screenings presented by the Houston Cinema Arts Festival!
See below for further information.

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Filmmaker Masterclass with Lucy Kerr
Saturday November 18, 4:00pm
Rice Cinema, Sewall Hall 301

Join Lucy Kerr for a masterclass.

Lucy Kerr (b. Houston, Texas 1990) is a filmmaker, artist, choreographer, and educator. Her work is rooted in questions of image-making and performance and how both of these are tied up with ritual and transformation. Kerr received and MFA in Film/Video and Art from California Institute of the Arts in 2020. In 2022, she was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine. Her debut feature film, Family Portrait, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2023 and garnered her the Locarno Boccalino d’Oro for Best Director, the feature film grant from Austin Film Society and the AirFrance Prize from FIDLab, and the New Horizons Award from US in Progress at the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Her short film, Crashing Waves, is in the permanent collection of Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in Marseille, France. Kerr’s projects have been presented by International Film Festival Rotterdam, FIDMarseille, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, REDCAT, Anthology Film Archives, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, and others.

General admission tickets can be purchased here: https://www.cinemahtx.org/hcaf/
Free for Rice students, for tickets email: [email protected]

Discounted parking available at Founder’s Court, $6 flat rate, credit card required.

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Eiffel Towers and Hoover Dams: New Experimental Films
Sunday, November 19, 1:00 pm
Sewall Hall, room 301
& room 258 (Sleepy Cyborg Gallery)

This block of new experimental short films is programmed by HCAF partner, Michael Sicinski. Michael Sicinski is a writer and critic who specializes in the analysis of experimental cinema. He is a frequent contributor to Cinema Scope, Cineaste, and Cargo. He also teaches film studies in the Art History Department at the University of Houston.

Tomonari Nishikawa, Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (Japan, 2023, 6 min)

Ayanna Dozier, Vincent Gallo’s S***m (U.S., 2022, 3 min)

Anna Kipervaser, Бабушка Галя и Дедушка Аркадий / Grandma Galya & Grandpa Arkadiy (U.S. / Ukraine, 2023, 5 min)

Erica Sheu, It follows It passes on (U.S. / Taiwan, 2023, 6 min)

Adam Piron, Yaangna Plays Itself (Kiowa Tribe / U.S., 2022, 8 min)

TT Takemoto, Lion in the Wind (U.S., 2023, 5 min)

Sara Sowell, Color Negative (U.S., 2023, 6 min)

Shambhavi Kaul, Slow Shift (India / U.S., 2023, 9 min)

Blake Williams, Laberint Sequences (Canada, 2023, 21 min)

Ken Jacobs, Eternalisms (U.S., 2023, 20 min loop – *Sewall Hall, room 258/ Sleepy Cyborg Gallery, lower level)

A selection of brief works made with Jacobs’ Eternalism method, a 3D effect with parallax and color shift, each running approximately 30 seconds. Be advised: these works use a gentle strobing effect.

General admission tickets can be purchased here: https://www.cinemahtx.org/hcaf/

Free for Rice students, for tickets email: [email protected]

Discounted parking available at Founder’s Court, $6 flat rate, credit card required.

Open to the public.

Join us this week for 2 screenings co-sponsored by the American Council and the Moroccan Earthquake Relief!
See below for further information.
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The Courtroom
(US, 87 min)
Saturday, November 3, 7:00 pm
Directed by: Lee Sunday Evans
Rice Cinema, Sewall Hall 301

Please join a special screening of Waterwell’s film, “The Courtroom” and an informative panel discussion hosted by The American Immigration Council. �

Moderator: Charles C. Foster Chairman, Foster LLP Globally recognized leading U.S. Immigration Attorney

Panelists: Jacob Monty Managing Partner, Monty & Ramirez LLP

Steve Stephens CEO, Amegy Bank and Chair, GHP Immigration Working Group ��

This event will gather Houston’s most influential minds, including: members and alumni of the American Leadership Forum, Leadership Houston, Center for Houston’s Future, key media, and industry thought leaders.

Discounted parking available at Founder’s Court, $6 flat rate, credit card required.

Registration is encouraged, free and open to the public. Please click the link below!
https://events.rice.edu/event/354493-the-courtroom

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Collapsed Walls
Directed by Hakim Belabbes
(Morocco, 2022, 136 min.)
Saturday, November 4, 7:00 pm
Rice Cinema, Sewall Hall 301

Introduced by Hakim Belabbes and Moderated by Abdellatif Adnane

The event is sponsored by the Moroccan Eartquake Relief.

The residents of a small Moroccan city endure separate lives while knowing the same cycles of burden and small joys. Wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters maneuver their way through mourning as death takes loved ones and life insists on moving forward. Here, letting go is a challenge for both the dead and the living. The people of this city share the same world but don’t always know when they live in each other’s lives, helping and harming each other. Connected by friendship, proximity, and blood, they both destroy and support each other. Through weddings, funerals, murders, forgiveness, love, new birth, and sacrifice, the living builds community and hope. Meanwhile, the souls of the dead linger to watch over loved ones.

Discounted parking available at Founder’s Court, $6 flat rate, credit card required.