A short social drama delivering a strong message to parents about the importance of protecting their children and not neglecting them. The story symbolizes the dangers of parental negligence and its long-lasting impact on the future of children.
With the fable-like Land of Barbar, set and shot in Sousse, along the Tunisian coast, artist Fredj Moussa reimagines a passage from the Decameron detailing a confrontation between Italians and North Africans from the latter’s perspective.
In Yemen, four brothers come of age under the shadow of war. Adham returns from the frontlines haunted by trauma, while Nasser fights to keep his two younger siblings from being recruited. The film is a lyrical meditation on boyhood, memory, and the quiet defiance of hope amid ruins.
In a Bedouin village in the Bekaa Valley, everyone is looking for Gamra. She is an enigmatic young girl who was accused of burning the vehicle of the man she loved when he decided to marry someone else. Will this burning flame spread out to the entire village?
Basem goes to a garden to wait for his friends. He falls asleep and a flute sound wakes him up, leading him to encounter a mysterious girl in the garden.
It’s his birthday. While waiting for her to arrive, he imagines the moment when he first sees her. What will her gift be? As he shifts between a dream and reality he receives a visit by a strange old man.
How does an image come to life? How does human imagination develop? Razi loves stories. His favorite is "The Monster." He keeps asking his father to tell him that story over and over again. Every time his father tells it, Razi lets himself be swept away by his two-year-old imagination, experiencing the developments and details as if he had never heard it before. The story so dearly loved by Razi is ancient, but it must be listened to again and again, especially for a Palestinian child.
This film tells the story of a group of young people from Gaza staging a Palestinian version of the Odyssey, which they have re-written and interpreted. It has been a success. The story of Ulysses, the Greek hero from Homer's saga, is about home. Home is an important concept that characterizes the entire long journey. Ulysses was driven from his home after the battle of Troy. Many people in Gaza are displaced due to bombs or occupation. The film discusses the realization of the show, from the initial stages of writing to the performance, but it also seeks to understand how Ulysses' message can be articulated in this place. It addresses the meaning of home in Gaza, how people try to maintain it, and the struggle to survive against everything that seeks to destroy it.
The rocks, sculpted by sea and wind, stand resilient, displaying the scars of the fragments torn away. From that beach, a young Sahrawi embarks on a mental journey to his last visit to the camps. The places, the rituals, the history, and the time make his voice merge with the memories of his mother's stories, showing a deep contrast between the situation in the recent past and the present.
The work revolves around a comedic framework, about the character of (Abu Salim), who goes through many different and funny situations and anecdotes that are considered a mirror of society and what it goes through.
Based on a narrative that is written in parallel with several visits to different zoos and zoologies in Palestine, Switzerland and Egypt. The film is under a larger umbrella that contains different works that range between video, video installation, novel and performance, in which each of these episodes deal with the concept of the museum from a different perspective. The projected video deals with the construction of the zoo and its historical relation to the museum, and the relation between museums and cemeteries. Where the three of these components are related to the discipline of history and uses a similar aesthetics in the display of the history representation.
Gaza, before the Israeli attacks of July 2014, had a total population of 1.8 million. Included in that number are 15,000 deaf people across the whole of the Gaza Strip. In this film we meet many strong personalities from this vibrant community, as they live their daily lives and strive to succeed as hearing people do.
The Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin is located in the West Bank west of Bethlehem along the green line, and is surrounded on three sides by the Israeli colony of Beitar and the Israeli town of Tzur Hadasa. In 1948 the Israeli army destroyed the village and forced residents to move. In 1972, residents were allowed to return to the village and build their home within a month. Legend has it that the village was rebuilt in one night. Today the inhabitants depend almost entirely on agriculture for their livelihood and struggle daily to access their lands. But the danger is looming and the village could disappear again at any time.
Patriarch Michel Sabbah: An Arab, Palestinian and Christian believer from Nazareth. In 1987, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1987, to be the first Arab Patriarch to hold the office in the Catholic Church's history. He made an honorable history during his work as a Patriarch. His work marked significant milestones in the struggle against injustice and oppression to bring peace to the country of the Prince of Peace. He is still active in many initiatives and activities to spread his human and spiritual message in Palestine and the world. The film is a humble contribution to honor the Patriarch and shed light on some crucial moments in his life, his thought, and his constant obsession with the consolidation of love, justice, and peace.
Documentary that delvs into the legend of Haddara, a Saharawi child who after getting lost in a sandstorm in the desert was adopted by the ostriches and with them lived with them until he was found and returned to society. It became a folk tale of oral transmission until it was written by different authors. The documentary goes through looking for what's really and what's about legend.
Reflects the daily life of a child in a Sahrawi school
These ten stories (dreams, urban legends, letters from prison, testimonies…) were filmed in Palestine from 2001 to 2008
A single channel video installation that explores landscape in Jordan. It runs twice, intended to be a loop.
Abu Jameel owns a small stationary in Ramallah. Nothing changed in his shop since the fifties. The lack of freedom of movement and military raids leave him with a general sense of insecurity. Director Nahed Awwad, approaches him gently, with tenderness, asks him about his dreams, his past, and his … secret rooms…
