By james art 
This weekend marks the beginning of the University of Wyoming Dispersion Second per second Film Festival in the Middle EastS
The festival will make screenings in three films on Saturday and Sunday, starting at 10am and will go to approximately 9pm. Thieevent is free and open to the public.
Movies are a wide range of topics about the Middle East.
All six of the films presented have won awards and have been played at international film festivals around the world. After each screening, a movie makers will be made, which allows them to answer all the questions the audience has about movies.
Movies vary both by location and in topics covered by the Middle East, from satirical vignettes from modern life in Iran to the intertwining surrealism of cross -identities placed in Canada.
Ahmad Daidalis, an assistant professor of instructions for the University of Wyoming at Honors College, which helps manage the event, wanted the festival to show a wide range of films.
“I think he opens a window on the lives of so many people living in the Middle East, whose life is not recognized in cinematographic ideas. I wanted to include these stories in the festival, “said Nadelizde.
One of the goals of the festival is to help Wyomingites understand and contact people in the Middle East. Daideline said that current geopolitical stressors often force media coverage in this region to represent a unilateral view of the lives of people living there. The hope is that by seeing through the perspective of people who are from the region and listening to their experiences, the residents of Wyoming can gain a more fast view of how many people from the Middle East look like today.
“The best way to introduce quote-unquote, a foreign culture, is by showing people what these cultures look like through the perspective of people living in these cultures, in these regions of the world,” Nadelis said.
This is the second time the University of Wyoming College of Honors hosted the Film Festival in the Middle East, Nadalizdeh hopes that interest in the festival will continue to grow both in Wyoming and in the surrounding states.
“For me, there is no better history than the history of cinema, which can dismantle political misconceptions and stereotypes,” Nadelisde said.
This festival comes at a time of importance to the Middle East community in Wyoming, a country with one of the largest populations of Muslim and Arab peoples, according to Global review of the populationS Due to the increasing tension in the region and often the negative representation of the Middle East in the media, the festival provides a recovery from the news and allows the residents of Wyoming to see a topic often discussed through a different lens.
“I want to have the stereotypes that are related to the Middle East to be dismantled,” said Nadelizde when he was questioned about the impact he hoped the festival could have.
More information about movies to be shown and their specific adaptation times can be found in Web page of the Middle East Film FestivalS