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SUMMARY:Film Screening:Halaloween x AANM: *Madayen* (Saudi Arabia\, 2016)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Global Islamic Studies Center and the Arab American National Museum (AANM) for a free screening of the Saudi found-footage horror film Madayen (2016) on October 8\, 2026\, at 7:00 PM at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn\, Michigan.\n\nAfter the film\, we will show a short\, pre-recorded Q&A talkback with the filmmakers Ayman Tamano and Hakeem Jomah.\n\nThis screening is ONLY in person at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. Reserve your free tickets here: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween\n\n\n\nHALALOWEEN FEATURE FILM: \n\n*Madayen* (2016)\n\n2016 | 62 minutes | Arabic with English subtitles | Saudi Arabia\nDirected by: Ayman Tamano\nFeaturing: Hakeem Jomah\, Khaled Yeslam\, Abdullah Kurashi\, Nadia Malaika\n\n\nFilm Description: Madayen is an indie found-footage-style film from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia\, written and produced by Hakeem Jomah and directed by Ayman Tamano\, that tells the tale of three young Saudis who set out to the notoriously haunted Madayen Saleh ruins in the far north of the Kingdom to investigate the myths and the truths behind the cursed place.\n\nHalaloween Horror Rating: 1/5. Not very scary. Road trip buddy movie meets found footage horror.\n\nReligious Content: fairly minimal\; jinn.\n\n\n\n_____\n\n\n\nHalaloween Muslim Horror Film Festival Info:\n\nWelcome to the 8th annual Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2026!\n\nWhat is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by\, for\, or about Muslims to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”\n\nThis year’s Halaloween 2026 film festival is a retrospective that brings back some of our Michigan community’s favorite Muslim horror films from the past few years. As usual\, the festival runs throughout October with a different movie screening and/or event every week. In addition to local theater screenings\, we are bringing you three community collaborations this year: with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn\, with Michigan Medicine and the U-M Medical School\, and with the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown!\n\nThe 2026 lineup: Halaloween starts off at the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn on Thursday\, October 8\, with a screening of the Saudi found-footage film Madayen (2016). On October 12 and October 20\, head to the State Theatre in Ann Arbor for the Iranian film Under the Shadow (2016) and the Malaysian film Tiger Stripes (2023)\, respectively. On October 27\, we are collaborating with the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School to bring you an expert medical and film panel on “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, & Loss with Horror Movies.”\n\nHalaloween officially ends on the evening of October 29 at 9pm at the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown\, Detroit\, with a screening of two Muslim horror short films: Aicha (directed by Sanaa El Alaoui\, Morocco\, 2025) and Enmity Djinn (directed by: Mohamed Echkouna\, Mauritania\, 2023)\, followed immediately after by the special event “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\,\" a Halaloween sampler with live music score in collaboration with Reginald Thiessen\, Victor Ghannam\, and Devil's Night Detroit!\n\nAlso check out our streaming Muslim horror films anytime on U-M Kanopy: the Senegalese folk horror film Saloum (2021)\, the witchy Tunisian film Dachra (2018)\, and the Iranian “vampire spaghetti Western” film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).\n\nThe festival is mostly in-person and free–but make sure to reserve tickets! In-person screenings will be first-come\, first-served\, with RSVPs strongly encouraged.\n\nWe are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies\, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating and other details.\n\n\n\nThe 2026 Halaloween Lineup:\n\nOctober 8: Madayen | Saudi Arabia | 2016 | 7:00 PM | Arab American National Museum\, Dearborn\nOctober 13: Under the Shadow | Iran | 2016 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 20: Tiger Stripes | Malaysia | 2023 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 27: Halaloween x Michigan Medicine Panel: “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, and Loss with Horror Movies” | Hussey Room\, Michigan League\, University of Michigan\n\nOctober 29: “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\": Halaloween Short Films and Live Music Score Retrospective at Devil's Night Detroit | Short films Aicha and Enmity Jinn | 7:00 PM |  Brooklyn Detroit\, Corktown (venue). *This event is ticketed and not free. Get tickets and more info here.\n\n\nRSVP & find out more: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween\nSponsors: Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Arab American National Museum\, Devil’s Night Detroit\, and Michigan Medicine.\n\n\nFor more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan\, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies. If you have any questions\, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.\n\nJoin our email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83\n\nFollow our social media for event updates:\n\nFacebook: UmichGISC\nhttps://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/\n\nTwitter: @umichgisc\nhttps://twitter.com/umichGISC
UID:152745-21914455@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152745
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,Global Islamic Studies,Halaloween,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260923T145307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261013T210000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Halaloween: *Under The Shadow* (2016\, Iran)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free screening of the Iranian horror film Under the Shadow (2016) on October 13\, 2026 at 7:00 PM at the State Theatre in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. This screening is ONLY in person at the State Theatre in Ann Arbor. Reserve your free tickets here: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.\n\n\nHALALOWEEN FEATURE FILM: \n\n*Under The Shadow* (2016)\n2016 | 62 minutes | Persian with English subtitles | Iran\n\nDirected by: Babak Anvari\nFeaturing: Narges Rashidi\, Avin Manshadi\, Bobby Naderi\n\nFilm Description: Set in Tehran during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War\, this movie is a meditation on the post-revolutionary fallout of the 1979 Iranian Revolution from a female perspective. A woman and her young daughter hunker down in their Tehran apartment during Iraqi bombardment. Did the missile that struck their building bring a jinn into their lives?\n\nHalaloween Horror Rating: 3/5. Reasonably scary. Includes jump scares\, jinn\, demonic children\, misogyny\, mother-daughter and husband-wife tension\, parental losing of a child\, and property damage due to war bombings.\n\nReligious Content: Islamic daily prayers\, hijab debates\, religious state authorities\, jinn.\n___\n\nHalaloween Muslim Horror Film Festival Info:\n\nWelcome to the 8th annual Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2026!\n\nWhat is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by\, for\, or about Muslims to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”\n\nThis year’s Halaloween 2026 film festival is a retrospective that brings back some of our Michigan community’s favorite Muslim horror films from the past few years. As usual\, the festival runs throughout October with a different movie screening and/or event every week. In addition to local theater screenings\, we are bringing you three community collaborations this year: with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn\, with Michigan Medicine and the U-M Medical School\, and with the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown!\n\nThe 2026 lineup: Halaloween starts off at the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn on Thursday\, October 8\, with a screening of the Saudi found-footage film Madayen (2016). On October 12 and October 20\, head to the State Theatre in Ann Arbor for the Iranian film Under the Shadow (2016) and the Malaysian film Tiger Stripes (2023)\, respectively. On October 27\, we are collaborating with the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School to bring you an expert medical and film panel on “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, & Loss with Horror Movies.”\n\nHalaloween officially ends on the evening of October 29 at 9pm at the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown\, Detroit\, with a screening of two Muslim horror short films: Aicha (directed by Sanaa El Alaoui\, Morocco\, 2025) and Enmity Djinn (directed by Mohamed Echkouna\, Mauritania\, 2023)\, followed immediately after by the special event “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\,\" a Halaloween sampler with live music score in collaboration with Reginald Thiessen\, Victor Ghannam\, and Devil's Night Detroit!\n\nAlso check out our streaming Muslim horror films anytime on U-M Kanopy: the Senegalese folk horror film Saloum (2021)\, the witchy Tunisian film Dachra (2018)\, and the Iranian “vampire spaghetti Western” film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).\n\nThe festival is mostly in-person and free–but make sure to reserve tickets! In-person screenings will be first-come\, first-served\, with RSVPs strongly encouraged.\n\nWe are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies\, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating and other details.\n\n\n\nThe 2026 Halaloween Lineup:\n\nOctober 8: Madayen | Saudi Arabia | 2016 | 7:00 PM | Arab American National Museum\, Dearborn\nOctober 13: Under the Shadow | Iran | 2016 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 20: Tiger Stripes | Malaysia | 2023 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 27: Halaloween x Michigan Medicine Panel: “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, and Loss with Horror Movies” | Hussey Room\, Michigan League\, University of Michigan\n\nOctober 29: “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\": Halaloween Short Films and Live Music Score Retrospective at Devil's Night Detroit | Short films Aicha and Enmity Jinn | 7:00 PM |  Brooklyn Detroit\, Corktown (venue). *This event is ticketed and not free. Get tickets and more info here.\n\n\nRSVP & find out more: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween\n\nSponsors: Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Arab American National Museum\, Devil’s Night Detroit\, and Michigan Medicine.\n\n\n\nFor more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan\, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies. If you have any questions\, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.\n\nJoin our email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83\n\n\n\nFollow our social media for event updates:\n\nFacebook: UmichGISC\nhttps://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/\n\nTwitter: @umichgisc\nhttps://twitter.com/umichGISC\n\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:152680-21914376@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152680
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Halaloween,Islamic Studies,Michigan Arts Festival,Film
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260923T145338
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261020T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening:Halaloween: *Tiger Stripes *(Malaysia\, 2023)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free screening of the Malaysian horror film Tiger Stripes (2023) on October 20\, 2026 at 7:00 PM at the State Theatre in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. This screening is ONLY in person at the State Theatre in Ann Arbor. Reserve your free tickets here: watch.eventive.org/halaloween\n\n\nHALALOWEEN FEATURE FILM: \n\n*Tiger Stripes* (2023)\n\n2023 | 95 minutes | Malay with English subtitles | Malaysia\nDirected by: Amanda Nell Eu\nFeaturing: Zafreen Zairizal\, Piqa\, Deena Ezral\n\nFilm Description: The once carefree Zaffan turns twelve years old and becomes the first girl amongst her friends to reach puberty\, discovering a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracized by her community\, Zaffan fights back\, learning that to be truly herself and have agency\, she must embrace the body she fears. Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.\n\nHalaloween Horror Rating: 4/5. Scary. This movie includes the horror subgenres of body horror\, blood and menstrual horror\, female coming-of-age horror\, gendered body horror\, and posthuman transformations. Reminiscent of the teen/adolescent girl horror films Carrie and Ginger Snaps.\n\nReligious Content: Most characters are Muslim\, and the film is set in a Muslim girls' school. Includes adhan\, Islamic prayer\, and corrupt male religious leaders.\n\n____\n\nHalaloween Muslim Horror Film Festival Info:\n\nWelcome to the 8th annual Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2026!\n\nWhat is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by\, for\, or about Muslims to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”\n\nThis year’s Halaloween 2026 film festival is a retrospective that brings back some of our Michigan community’s favorite Muslim horror films from the past few years. As usual\, the festival runs throughout October with a different movie screening and/or event every week. In addition to local theater screenings\, we are bringing you three community collaborations this year: with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn\, with Michigan Medicine and the U-M Medical School\, and with the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown!\n\nThe 2026 lineup: Halaloween starts off at the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn on Thursday\, October 8\, with a screening of the Saudi found-footage film Madayen (2016). On October 12 and October 20\, head to the State Theatre in Ann Arbor for the Iranian film Under the Shadow (2016) and the Malaysian film Tiger Stripes (2023)\, respectively. On October 27\, we are collaborating with the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School to bring you an expert medical and film panel on “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, & Loss with Horror Movies.”\n\nHalaloween officially ends on the evening of October 29 at 9pm at the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown\, Detroit\, with a screening of two Muslim horror short films: Aicha (directed by Sanaa El Alaoui\, Morocco\, 2025) and Enmity Djinn (directed by Mohamed Echkouna\, Mauritania\, 2023)\, followed immediately after by the special event “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\,\" a Halaloween sampler with live music score in collaboration with Reginald Thiessen\, Victor Ghannam\, and Devil's Night Detroit!\n\nAlso check out our streaming Muslim horror films anytime on U-M Kanopy: the Senegalese folk horror film Saloum (2021)\, the witchy Tunisian film Dachra (2018)\, and the Iranian “vampire spaghetti Western” film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).\n\nThe festival is mostly in-person and free–but make sure to reserve tickets! In-person screenings will be first-come\, first-served\, with RSVPs strongly encouraged.\n\nWe are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies\, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating and other details.\n\n\n\nThe 2026 Halaloween Lineup:\n\nOctober 8: Madayen | Saudi Arabia | 2016 | 7:00 PM | Arab American National Museum\, Dearborn\nOctober 13: Under the Shadow | Iran | 2016 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 20: Tiger Stripes | Malaysia | 2023 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 27: Halaloween x Michigan Medicine Panel: “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, and Loss with Horror Movies” | Hussey Room\, Michigan League\, University of Michigan\n\nOctober 29: “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\": Halaloween Short Films and Live Music Score Retrospective at Devil's Night Detroit | Short films Aicha and Enmity Jinn | 7:00 PM |  Brooklyn Detroit\, Corktown (venue). *This event is ticketed and not free. Get tickets and more info here.\n\n\nRSVP & find out more: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween\n\nSponsors: Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Arab American National Museum\, Devil’s Night Detroit\, and Michigan Medicine.\n\n\n\nFor more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan\, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies. If you have any questions\, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.\n\nJoin our email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83\n\n\n\nFollow our social media for event updates:\n\nFacebook: UmichGISC\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/\n\nTwitter: @umichgisc\n\nhttps://twitter.com/umichGISC\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email Contact:	islamicstudies@umich.edu
UID:152756-21914470@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152756
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,Halaloween,Global Islamic Studies,Film
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260923T145350
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Halaloween x Michigan Medicine Panel | Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, and Loss with Horror Movies
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 27\, 2026 at 5:30 PM in the Hussey Room in the Michigan League at the University of Michigan for the first-ever Halaloween panel collaboration between the Global Islamic Studies Center and Michigan Medicine’s Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine! An expert panel of pediatric\, geriatric\, hospice\, and palliative care medical doctors\, hospital chaplains\, and horror film scholars will discuss how the horror genre and horror movies can be tools for people dealing with illness\, grief\, death\, loss\, and shared fears that are both specific to and transcend religion and culture.\n\nPanelists will discuss: what can horror tell us about the fears that people bring with them when they encounter bodily illness and healthcare providers\, particularly when they\, their elders\, or their children are experiencing serious illness\, the process of dying\, ambiguous loss\, or anticipatory grief? Can Muslim and spiritually or religiously themed horror movies provide psychological catharsis and alleviate suffering?\n\nThis panel is ONLY in person. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP on this form: https://forms.gle/bkZC5NsLagDaf99w9\n\n\nMeet the panelists:\n\nDr. Adam Marks\, MD\, Clinical Professor of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine\; Medical Director\, Hospice Program and Adult Hospice\n\nDr. Nurah Omobola Lawal\, MD\, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Hospice and Palliative Medicine\n\nDr. Karla Mallette\, Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies\; Founder\, Halaloween\n\nChaplain LJ Brazier\, Michigan Medicine Spiritual Care Department\, Palliative Care\n\nChaplain Maryam Ashraf\, Michigan Medicine Spiritual Care Department\, Spiritual and Muslim Patient Care\n\nModerator: Dr. Aliyah Khan\, Director\, Global Islamic Studies Center\; Associate Professor of English & Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nThis panel is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) in collaboration with the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School.\n\n___\n\nHalaloween Muslim Horror Film Festival Info:\n\nWelcome to the 8th annual Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2026!\n\nWhat is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by\, for\, or about Muslims to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”\n\nThis year’s Halaloween 2026 film festival is a retrospective that brings back some of our Michigan community’s favorite Muslim horror films from the past few years. As usual\, the festival runs throughout October with a different movie screening and/or event every week. In addition to local theater screenings\, we are bringing you three community collaborations this year: with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn\, with Michigan Medicine and the U-M Medical School\, and with the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown!\n\nThe 2026 lineup: Halaloween starts off at the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn on Thursday\, October 8\, with a screening of the Saudi found-footage film Madayen (2016). On October 12 and October 20\, head to the State Theatre in Ann Arbor for the Iranian film Under the Shadow (2016) and the Malaysian film Tiger Stripes (2023)\, respectively. On October 27\, we are collaborating with the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School to bring you an expert medical and film panel on “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, & Loss with Horror Movies.”\n\nHalaloween officially ends on the evening of October 29 at 9pm at the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown\, Detroit\, with a screening of two Muslim horror short films: Aicha (directed by Sanaa El Alaoui\, Morocco\, 2025) and Enmity Djinn (directed by Mohamed Echkouna\, Mauritania\, 2023)\, followed immediately after by the special event “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\,\" a Halaloween sampler with live music score in collaboration with Reginald Thiessen\, Victor Ghannam\, and Devil's Night Detroit!\n\nAlso check out our streaming Muslim horror films anytime on U-M Kanopy: the Senegalese folk horror film Saloum (2021)\, the witchy Tunisian film Dachra (2018)\, and the Iranian “vampire spaghetti Western” film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).\n\nThe festival is mostly in-person and free–but make sure to reserve tickets! In-person screenings will be first-come\, first-served\, with RSVPs strongly encouraged.\n\nWe are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies\, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating and other details.\n\n\n\nThe 2026 Halaloween Lineup:\n\nOctober 8: Madayen | Saudi Arabia | 2016 | 7:00 PM | Arab American National Museum\, Dearborn\nOctober 13: Under the Shadow | Iran | 2016 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 20: Tiger Stripes | Malaysia | 2023 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 27: Halaloween x Michigan Medicine Panel: “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, and Loss with Horror Movies” | Hussey Room\, Michigan League\, University of Michigan\n\nOctober 29: “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\": Halaloween Short Films and Live Music Score Retrospective at Devil's Night Detroit | Short films Aicha and Enmity Jinn | 7:00 PM |  Brooklyn Detroit\, Corktown (venue). *This event is ticketed and not free. Get tickets and more info here.\n\n\nRSVP & find out more: watch.eventive.org/halaloween\nSponsors: Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Arab American National Museum\, Devil’s Night Detroit\, and Michigan Medicine.\n\n\n\nFor more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan\, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies. If you have any questions\, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.\n\nJoin our email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83.\n\n\n\nFollow our social media for event updates:\n\nFacebook: UmichGISC\nhttps://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/\n\nTwitter: @umichgisc\nhttps://twitter.com/umichGISC
UID:152748-21914464@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152748
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film,Global Islamic Studies,Halaloween,Michigan Arts Festival
LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260923T145402
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T230000
SUMMARY:Performance:Devil’s Night Detroit: “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\" Musical Retrospective and Short Films
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 29\, 2026\, at 9:00 PM for the first-ever Halaloween collab between the Global Islamic Studies Center and Devil’s Night Detroit™ at the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown\, Detroit\, for a showing of Muslim horror short films from Morocco and Mauritania\, followed by “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\,” a video retrospective of Halaloween by Reginald Thiessen\, accompanied by a live musical score by Victor Ghannam.\n\n\nDevil’s Night Detroit™ is an immersive\, multi-arts world shaped by the macabre\, the surreal\, and the beautifully strange. Cinema\, music\, movement\, live performance\, and unexpected encounters unfold throughout the night\, appearing and disappearing like fever dreams. This isn’t simply a night you attend. It’s a world you enter.\n\n\n\nSchedule:\n\n\nDJ Wraith 'Nocturnal Transmissions' + Experimental Film Oddities\n7:00 PM\n\nDark Pages Horror Book Club Presents \"Silver Nitrate\" Discussion\n8:00 PM\n\nDark Pages Horror Book Club Presents \"Nocturnal Rituals' An Intimate Q&A w. David J (Bauhaus)\n8:15 PM\n\nHalaloween Muslim Horror Festival Presents: Aicha and Enmity Djinn (film shorts)\n9:00 PM\n\nHalaloween Muslim Horror Festival Presents: Those Between Worlds (A Jinn Dreamscape) Live Score and Screening\n9:30 PM\n\nDavid J's Grand Guignol 'The Spectral Score' Live Score and Screening\n10:00 PM\n\nMila La Machina's 'The She-Devil of Excess'\n10:45 PM\n\nDJ Wraith 'Nocturnal Transmissions'\n11:15 PM\n\nThe full event begins at 7:00 PM\; see the full schedule & more information here.\n\nEVENT 1\, SHORT FILMS\, 9:00 PM: Aicha (2025) & Enmity Djinn (2023)\n\n*Aicha* | 2025 | 25 minutes | Darija with English subtitles | Morocco\nDirected by: Sanaa El Alaoui\nFeaturing: Hind Dafer\, Manal Bennani\, Mohamed Amine Kihal\n\nFilm Description: A 17-year-old girl struggles with an emotionally distant mother as her life takes a tragic and violent turn. The mother joins an Amazigh gnawa mystical and musical ceremony to face her grief and the lost bond with her daughter.\n\nHalaloween Horror Rating: 3/5. Very scary. Serious bodily content warnings: sexual violence against and murder of a teen girl\, birthing\, menstruation\, implied violence. The true horror is other human beings\, rather than the supernatural. Features folkloric figure Aicha Kandicha\, possession\, sacrificed animals\, and jinn. Religious content includes Islamic prayer and duaa\, ghusl of a female body\, Qur’an pictured.\n\n*Enmity Djinn* | 2023 | 19 minutes | Arabic and French with English subtitles | Mauritania\nDirected by: Mohamed Echkouna\nFeaturing: Zeinebou Ahmed\, Khadijetou Ely Bakha\, Aminetou Brahim\n\nFilm Description: An elderly woman is forced to confront a malevolent jinn that once haunted her past.\n\nHalaloween Horror Rating: 2.5/5. Creepy slow burn\, but no gore. References to sihr\, black magic\, jinn\; implied killing of women and manipulation of children by jinn. Creepy and ominous feeling. Religious content includes Muslims praying.\n\n\nEVENT 2. LIVE MUSIC SCORE AND VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE: “Those Between Worlds (A Jinn Dreamscape).” Following the short films.\n\n\nThe Halaloween Muslim Horror Festival and Devil’s Night Detroit™ presents: “Those Between Worlds (A Jinn Dreamscape) Live Score and Screening\,” a Halaloween video retrospective by Reginald Thiessen with a live music score by Victor Ghannam.\n\n\n\nFollowing the short films\, after 9:30 PM at Devil’s Night Detroit™.\n\nThis event is brought to you in collaboration with Reginald Thiessen and Devil’s Night Detroit™.\n\n\n\n____\n\n\n\nHalaloween Muslim Horror Film Festival Info\nWelcome to the 8th annual Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2026!\n\nWhat is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by\, for\, or about Muslims to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”\n\n\n\nThis year’s Halaloween 2026 film festival is a retrospective that brings back some of our Michigan community’s favorite Muslim horror films from the past few years. As usual\, the festival runs throughout October with a different movie screening and/or event every week. In addition to local theater screenings\, we are bringing you three community collaborations this year: with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn\, with Michigan Medicine and the U-M Medical School\, and with the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown!\n\n\n\nThe 2026 lineup: Halaloween starts off at the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn on Thursday\, October 8\, with a screening of the Saudi found-footage film Madayen (2016). On October 12 and October 20\, head to the State Theatre in Ann Arbor for the Iranian film Under the Shadow (2016) and the Malaysian film Tiger Stripes (2023)\, respectively. On October 27\, we are collaborating with the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School to bring you an expert medical and film panel on “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, & Loss with Horror Movies.”\n\n\n\nHalaloween officially ends on the evening of October 29 at the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown\, Detroit\, with a screening of Muslim horror short films from Morocco and Mauritania\, followed immediately after by the special event “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\,\" a Halaloween music video retrospective in collaboration with Reginald Thiessen\, Victor Ghannam\, and Devil's Night Detroit!\n\n\n\nAlso check out our streaming Muslim horror films anytime on U-M Kanopy: the Senegalese folk horror film Saloum (2021)\, the witchy Tunisian film Dachra (2018)\, and the Iranian “vampire spaghetti Western” film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).\n\nThe festival is mostly in-person and free–but make sure to reserve tickets! In-person screenings will be first-come\, first-served\, with RSVPs strongly encouraged.\n\nWe are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies\, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating and other details.\n\n\n\nThe 2026 Halaloween Lineup:\n\nOctober 8: Madayen | Saudi Arabia | 2016 | 7:00 PM | Arab American National Museum\nOctober 13: Under the Shadow | Iran | 2016 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\nOctober 20: Tiger Stripes | Malaysia | 2023 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\nOctober 27: Halaloween x Michigan Medicine Panel: “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, and Loss with Horror Movies” | Time & Date TBA\nOctober 29: “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\": Halaloween Short Films and Panel at Devil's Night Detroit | 7:00 PM | Brooklyn Detroit (Venue)*\n*This event is ticketed and not free\n\n\n\nRSVP & find out more: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween\n\n\nSponsors: Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Arab American National Museum\, Devil’s Night Detroit\, and Michigan Medicine.\n\n\n\nFor more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan\, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies. If you have any questions\, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.\n\n\nJoin our email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83\n\n\nFollow our social media for event updates:\n\nFacebook: UmichGISC\nhttps://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/\n\nTwitter: @umichgisc\nhttps://twitter.com/umichGISC\n\n\n----\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email Contact:	islamicstudies@umich.edu
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CATEGORIES:Performance,Michigan Arts Festival,Halaloween,Global Islamic Studies,Film
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