New York’s Inaugural Muslim Film Festival Aims to Move Past Counter-Narratives, Unveils Lineup, Jury (EXCLUSIVE)

A festival launching Oct. 11 astatine Manhattan’s SVA Theatre is positioning itself arsenic an reply to the flattened, stereotyped representation of Muslims Western media often traffics in. The New York Muslim Film Festival (NYMFF), billed arsenic the city’s archetypal for Muslim filmmakers, wants them telling their ain stories. Hassan Babar, the festival’s creator director, said […]