Mizna Film Series 2026: Fangs (Anyab)

Trylon Cinema 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN 55406 In 2026, Mizna celebrates the twentieth edition of our flagship program, the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival. We mark this milestone with a year-long, multi-venue program, Looking Forward, Looking Back, which centers images from the history of SWANA filmmaking and our past festivals. Through this framework, we confront the visual record, demanding more from the archive than a sentimental look at the past. While SWANA films have been continually plundered, twisted, and aligned to colonial narratives, this year, Mizna’s film programming considers what overlooked, liberatory lessons the past might offer the present and future. With this goal in mind, we present selections by former Mizna festival curators alongside new restorations of SWANA cinema, drawing radical new meanings from the objects that remain. Join us on October 28, 2026 at 7pm for the fourth screening of our quarterly film program, Mizna Film Series, presenting a Halloween screening of Fangs (Anyab) by Mohammed Shebl. Spread the word: Mizna will also present Halloween screenings of Fangs (Anyab) in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Tickets + more info coming soon! (1981, DCP, 100m, Arabic, w/ English Subtitles) dir Mohammed Shebl. Egypt’s answer to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this delirious musical-horror oddity follows two innocent lovers who stumble into a nightclub of disco-dancing vampires, rock ‘n’ roll numbers, and campy bloodsucking mayhem. Cairo meets Transylvania in a cult curio that’s equal parts satire, singalong, and surreal nightmare. Mohammed Shebl’s 1981 adaptation isn’t just a cult classic, Fangs (Anyab) is also an astute commentary on the Egyptian socio-political climate all wrapped up in disco, glam, and vampire fangs! —Cultpix