KARAMA’s vision is to grow the San Diego Arab Film Festival into a major cultural event that enhances the identity, perception and understanding of the Arab and the Arab world. Doing so will require time, energy and money. You can help in multiple ways:
We always welcome your financial support. You can donate by clicking on the button below. KARAMA is tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code 501(3)c. We use PayPal for secure transactions by credit card or by PayPal account. On the PayPal page you can specify that your donation be applied to the Arab Film Festival. All donations are acknowledged in the Festival program distributed at all screenings.
If your employer offers a benefit of matching your charitable contributions, please consider requesting a match for your contribution to KARAMA to support the San Diego Arab Film Festival.
There are four levels of sponsorship available. They include various incentives, depending on level, ranging from acknowledgment and advertisement space in the Festival program to tickets, and promotion of logos on the festival website and in emails.
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Friends are acknowledged in the Festival program and on screen at each screening and receive two festival passes.
Half page ad in program, logo on web page and email announcements, on-screen thank you at each screening, four festival passes.
Full page ad in program, logo on web page and email announcements, on-screen thank you at each screening, two festival passes and four addition tickets to screening(s) of choice.
Full page ad in program, logo on web page, email announcements and festival poster, on-screen thank you at each screening, six festival passes.
The program pages will be full color, 5.5 inches wide by 8.5 inches high. Advertisements are available at quarter-page, half-page, and full-page sizes.
Advertisements in the Film Festival program, without the incentives included in sponsorships, are available in these sizes.
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Actual Dimension: 5.5”W x 8.5”H Printable Area: 4.875”W x 7.875”H
Actual Dimension: 5.5”W x 4.25”H Printable Area: 4.875”W x 3.875”H
Actual Dimension: 5.5”W x 2.125”H Printable Area: 4.875”W x 1.875”H
Of all of the publicity methods we have tried, the one cited most by those who have attended past festivals is “heard about it from friends.” Please spread the word about the Film Festival among your friends and colleagues. Like us on Facebook
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Putting on a film festival requires lots of volunteers with all kinds of experience and skill levels, from ticket takers and ushers to social media managers. If you would like to volunteer, email us at volunteer@sandiegoaff.org.
A Palestinian couple living in Gaza is preparing for their wedding when an event changes their life story. After this incident, the Palestinian bride is reviewing her memories of the joys and sorrows of the 7 days leading up to the wedding day and whispering to her husband, Ahmed, who is a fisherman from Gaza. This documentary tries for the first time to discuss the word resistance along with the concept of life in Palestine and Gaza.
Aida Returns is a poignant, sometimes sad, sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of a multiple journey: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggled with losing herself to Alzheimer’s disease, but finding solace in her repeated “returning” to the Yafa and Palestine of her youth; the journey of the loss of a parent; and the ultimate return journey back to Yafa where Aida would finally find rest and be herself once more. This journey is at the same time very private and personal, while resonating with hundreds of thousands of Alzheimer’s sufferers and their families as well as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees awaiting their return home.
Close to four years after Aida’s passing away, the director’s friend and colleague Tanya who lives in Ramallah came to visit Beirut. When she heard about Aida’s wishes and yearning for Yafa, Tanya suggested that she herself carries the ashes back. The film accompanies director Carol Mansour as she engineers a way to return her mother to Yafa in search of eternal rest and peace for her. A return that is aided by an unlikely set of friends and strangers all coming together to facilitate what should have been a simple journey.
