The war of 1948 changed the lives of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem forever. 'My Jerusalem' is the story of how they were living, what it was like to go to school there, what they played in the 'hara' or playgrounds. The story is told by the people who were born and grew up there before 1948. They then talk us through the war that forced them to leave their homes and lives forever.
This documentary is a collection of stories told by Palestinians about their childhood memories of life in Safad until 1948. Several former Palestinian natives of Safad interviewed by the director describe their forced exodus from the city in the 1948 Nakba.
Jaffa, the city of oranges, was the home of many Arab families for centuries until it was all taken over in 1948. 'My Jaffa' is the story told by some if those families about the lives they led in Jaffa before 1948. They tell us what it was like to grow up by the sea and what it was like to be a part of the booming Jaffa orange industry. This is their personal journey from living in their homes, going to school then overnight having to run away and escape.
The war of 1948 changed the lives of Palestinians forever. My Palestine is the story of how they were living, what it was like to go to school there, what they played in the 'hara' or playgrounds. The story is told by the people who were born and grew up there before 1948. They then talk us through the war that forced them to leave their homes and lives forever. It commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Nakba and its impact on those who lived through it.
A short film by Milena Galizzi about water control in the West Bank. Made in Palestine.
This film is a product of questions and comparisons that have matured in the director's imagination through his follow-up to the safety and quarantine regulations used in the world to reduce the number of infections, hence this film is a way to highlight the racist isolation measures that the Israeli occupation is practicing against the Palestinians, as if they were a virus that they supposed to kill and isolate away from the world. It’s named (COVID-1948) in order to draw the world's attention to our decades-old suffering.
How would you claim your identity in a hostile land? How could you live under harassment and repression? How would you make your voice break through the walls of silence? Sahrawi young people living at the Occupied Territories (O.T) are required to study at the occupying country. But a river resonates all over the desert...
The political strategy of manipulating photographs or paintings by removing certain elements or persons has been employed repeatedly throughout history by those in positions of power in order to adjust the historical narrative as it suited them and their idea of the “one truth”. Drawing on the same photograph from 1985, this film precisely examines this ability of photographic images to (de)construct a visual canon and therefore affect memory. The work poses the question: what kind of information can a picture reveal about the past, and what (or who) does it conceal?
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.
The video is based on a research that follows cases of seventeen exhibitions by Palestinian artists, each contained different artworks and exhibited in different countries around the world, the 17 exhibitions are considered missing today due to the challenges caused by the Israeli government associated with returning the artworks to Palestine. The Moon is a Sun Returning as a Ghost follows one of these cases, an exhibition that took place in 2005 in the swiss town of Martigny, the works could not be returned to the artists and were instead moved from a country to another and from one storage facility to another.
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.
White Oil is a film about the quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The film unfolds narratives around colonialism, expropriation of land and mobility through the day-to-day lives of the quarry owners, workers and security guards by including their personal histories and experiences, as well as, the changing landscape and conditions of the quarries to bring to bear the myriad losses of land, economy, identity, history and community.
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.
Karim is a young man of Moroccan origin living in Brussels, who has completed advanced studies and holds many diplomas, including that of a chartered accountant.
These ten stories (dreams, urban legends, letters from prison, testimonies…) were filmed in Palestine from 2001 to 2008
Deep in space, mysterious asteroids roam the solar system, holding secrets about the formation of planets and the origin of life, and possibly threatening Earth's destruction. The documentary showcases the efforts of NASA and international space agencies to detect and combat these rocks, from the DART mission to the explorations of Ryugu and Bennu. An exciting scientific journey reveals the scale of the threat... and the opportunity to understand.
A single channel video installation that explores landscape in Jordan. It runs twice, intended to be a loop.
This short documentary collects the oral history testimonies of five Palestinian women living inside Israel today. Four of the women are internally displaced refugees, unable to return to their villages and homes despite remaining within the boundaries of what became Israel in 1948, the fifth remains a resident of her original village, Tarshiha in the northern Galilee. The film aims to convey through these testimonies a sense of women's lives in rural Palestinian communities prior to, during, and after the Nakba, and by doing so to contribute to a fuller understanding of the different and vital roles played by Palestinian women during this period. The documentation forms part of a wider series of oral history projects undertaken by the Zochrot organisation in Israel.
A snapshot of the year I spent living in Palestine. Filmed in 2005-2006.
