To close Mizna’s 2021 edition of the Twin Cities Film Festival, Mizna partnered with Moon Palace Books to offer a free, outdoor screening in the plaza outside of Moon Palace. The atmosphere was festive and celebratory—concluding an engaging weekend of film and community building. The majority of the festival took place at the Trylon Cinema, also in the Longfellow neighborhood. The closing night film was offered without cost to audiences. At the closing event, DJ Soul Collective performed, and Mizna worked with Baba’s food truck to offer discounted meals, with proceeds going to a Palestinian nonprofit that supports a skill-building incubator in Ramallah. Mizna screened the Somali film The Gravedigger’s Wife and invited local Somali cultural worker Abdi Mohamed, a friend of the filmmaker’s, to introduce the film. The Arab Film Fest provides film artists support and exposure and to present to Arab/SWANA and Muslim audiences a rare chance to see their authentic experiences on the screen—films made by our community rather than simply about our community. The festival also reveals to those outside the community the heterogeneity of SWANA peoples, providing a rich, complex, and true source of cultural understanding. The closing event was a truly joyous, community building event, drawing a young and diverse crowd with the Somali community well-represented—this is not the norm for film programming, which tends to skew to a middle aged/elderly and white audience. Mizna has done work over its 22 year history to build connections with our authentic audience, and that is reflected in the community who attended the event. After two years of adhering to the most intense pandemic restrictions, this event was a critical opportunity for the Mizna community to reconnect with one another and with their city through the power of narrative film. The Longfellow Neighborhood was a meaningful and fitting location for such a wonderful night of politically meaningful art and community.