Arab Film Fest Tulsa presents
a Palestinian & Sudan Double Feature + Talk & Meal
and returns in full 2025!
Sat Nov 9, 3:00-8:00pm at Circle Cinema
$15 entire program - click here to get your ticket now
Spend five immersive hours with the Arab Film Fest Tulsa community for two very different critically acclaimed films, each from an Arab World nation currently gripped by extreme turmoil, with a talk to accompany one film, and food in-between.
One ticket gets you everything! See the Palestinian family documentary BYE BYE TIBERIUS about Succession and Ramy hit series star Hiam Abbass and her complicated visit home with her daughter—see the incisive Sudanese drama GOODBYE JULIA about brutal north-south divides touching the lives of a pop singer and her widowed maid—and enjoy a savory Lebanese spread from Shawkat Mediterranean Grill as intermission. Stay after GOODBYE JULIA for a half hour discussion with three special guests about intersections with the film in the work of three special guests--Nathan Hughes from the Tulsa refugee resettlement organization Rising Village, Tulsa Artist Fellow and community-based Ethiopian photographer Eyakem Gulilat, and virtually from Austin, Sudanese-British filmmaker Fatima Wardy, a colleague of the film's director, Mohamed Kordofani.
The full multi-day Arab Film Fest Tulsa will regroup and return for its fourth edition in 2025. In the meantime, we invite any and all interested to still gather this year for a sample of what we always offer: excellent and singular indie Arab world films, vibrant conversation and delectable food, and a welcoming and diverse community.
Curated by Mizna, hosted by Circle Cinema, sponsored by Tulsa Artist Fellowship
and organized by Moheb Soliman—for more info or questions contact mohebsolimanmohebsoliman@gmail.com
Program
One $15 ticket includes both films + film talk + food at intermission!
Click here to get your ticket now, and click the posters for more info and trailers on the films.
Order of Events (please note the schedule has changed on food and second film start time!)
3pm: Bye Bye Tiberias
4:45pm: Meal from
5:30pm: Goodbye Julia + post-screening talk with special guests Nathan Hughes and Eyakem Gulilat in-person joined by Fatima Wardy over Zoom. Keep scrolling for panelist bios and more information on their work.
Discussion guests
Nathan Hughes
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Nathan is the Resource Coordinator at Rising Village, a Refugee Resettlement Agency based in Tulsa, OK. Their mission is to help marginalized people become full community participants and contributors through various programs and initiatives. In this role, Nathan manages housing, donations, and PR. Having worked in marketing before this Nathan uses his background in marketing and design to help the refugee and immigrant community in Tulsa. Outside of work, he can be found bike touring in different parts of the world or fishing ponds back in his home state of Kansas.
Eyakem Gulilat
Originally from Ethiopia, Eyakem Gulilat’s work is rooted in the search for belonging. Through photography, he navigates the complexities of cross-cultural interactions, exploring how time, memory, and place shape our experiences. His work has been honored with awards including a National Endowment for the Arts grant in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, the National Photography Fellowship at the Midwest Center for Photography, the En Foco Photography Fellowship, and the Project Row Houses and University of Houston Fellowship. His work has been widely exhibited across the U.S. and Canada and is held in notable public and private collections. Gulilat is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow.
Fatima Wardy - joining via Zoom
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Fatima Wardy is a Sudanese and British filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. In 2023 she was awarded a development grant by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) for her documentary feature titled The Love Marriage––an archive-based film that utilizes the filmmaker’s personal photographs and family oral histories to explore the modernisation of Sudan in the 1980s and the genesis of the Omar al-Bashir dictatorship. Currently, she is an MFA Candidate in Film and Media Production at the University of Texas at Austin, where her studies have been supported by a Fulbright Award and a Pigott/BAFTA Scholarship.