March 19 marks the seventh year of the war in Yemen, a date commemorated this year with a special screening of short films by seven Yemeni filmmakers. This screening begins on Friday, March 19, at 4:30 pm PDT with the premiere of the films Conflict Is More Profitable Than Peace and مهجر // Mahjar by the Yemeni artist and filmmaker Alia Ali. Ali, currently featured in the Benton Museum of Art’s Project Series, will then discuss her work—and discourses of Yemeni futurism—with Dave Serio, the film curator at the Arab American National Museum. TO REGISTER https://arabfilmseries.eventive.org/schedule After this event, the following six films will be available for viewing for 48 hours on the same platform— Carroum dir. Nashwan Sadeq / 9 minutes / Documentary Ozaizah dir. Alaa Hafed / 6 minutes / Documentary Made of Gold dir. Saber Wasel / 6 minutes / Documentary / The Last Resort dir. Noor Adeen Morgan / 10 minutes / Documentary Scene 2 dir. Abdulrahman Alward / 21 minutes / Fiction The Helmet dir. Osama Khaled / 9 minutes / Sci-Fi This event is presented by the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and the Benton Museum of Art together with the Department of Art History at Pomona College, Youth of the World Together (YWT), ArteEast, and Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI).