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Montreal, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 – Attention, cinephiles of all stripes! Now in its 6th year, the Fnc’s Temps Ø program is seeing big, with 17 films and two major events. Temps Ø runs October 8th to 18th.
Starting things off on Thursday, October 8 at 9:30 p.m. at the Imperial (Sandra & Leo Kolber Centre, Salle Lucie & André Chagnon), the much anticipated Montreal premiere of Omar Majeed’s documentary Taqwacore: The Birth Of Punk Islam. Taqwacore (taqwa for piety, core as in hard) is unapologetic punk, cool and real, a joyously radical scene inspired by Michael Muhammad Knight’s The Taqwacores. His story of Sufis with mohawks, Riot Grrrls in burqas and Indonesian skaterboys was an instant hit with a generation of North American Muslims who began speaking out against extremism within their communities and stereotypes in the outside world. Featuring Boston’s The Kominas and author Michael Muhammad Knight,...
Montreal, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 – Attention, cinephiles of all stripes! Now in its 6th year, the Fnc’s Temps Ø program is seeing big, with 17 films and two major events. Temps Ø runs October 8th to 18th.
Starting things off on Thursday, October 8 at 9:30 p.m. at the Imperial (Sandra & Leo Kolber Centre, Salle Lucie & André Chagnon), the much anticipated Montreal premiere of Omar Majeed’s documentary Taqwacore: The Birth Of Punk Islam. Taqwacore (taqwa for piety, core as in hard) is unapologetic punk, cool and real, a joyously radical scene inspired by Michael Muhammad Knight’s The Taqwacores. His story of Sufis with mohawks, Riot Grrrls in burqas and Indonesian skaterboys was an instant hit with a generation of North American Muslims who began speaking out against extremism within their communities and stereotypes in the outside world. Featuring Boston’s The Kominas and author Michael Muhammad Knight,...
- 10/1/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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