FANGS Screening

Join us on October 30, 2026 at 8pm for a special halloween screening of FANGS (ANYAB) in Los Angeles at Scribble, hosted by Mizna.

For more than twenty-five years, Mizna has promoted contemporary and experimental approaches to art, literature, and film; work that questions and expands the forms and conceptual frameworks of Arab and SWANA culture. Mizna publishes a biannual print literary and art journal, Mizna, and produces the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, the largest and longest-running SWANA-centered film festival in the Midwest. Mizna also offers readings, film series, performances, public art commissions, and community events that have featured 1000+ local and transnational writers, filmmakers, and artists. Learn more at www.mizna.org

ABOUT THE FILM

Fangs (Anyab) (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 of isn’t just a cult classic, Anyab (Fangs) is an astute commentary on the Egyptian socio-political climate all wrapped up in disco, glam and vampire fangs!