“The Seventh Art Stand” is a film series that will run across the country in May featuring movies from countries affected by President Trump’s latest travel ban which has recently been blocked by the courts. Venues for the festival include the Arab American National Museum in Michigan, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle; and the Metrograph and Anthology Film Archives in New York.
“We believe it is crucial to build a tradition of sharing more stories, voices and faces on our screens,” series creators Richard Abramowitz and Courtney Sheehan said in a statement. Some of the films programmed to be presented include: “Fishing Without Nets,” from Somalia; “About Baghdad,” from Iraq; “Karama Has No Walls” and “The Mulberry House” from Yemen; and Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman.”
