Last May in Palestine (Slot 2)
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2022
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Red Passport (slot 2)
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By The Sea (Slot 1)
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Nahid tries to celebrate her husband's birthday as he is being chased by Israeli soldiers. Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, it is really difficult for Nahid to get all the ingredients needed to bake the birthday cake. Will Nahid be able to celebrate her husband's birthday with him in their secret place?
Palestine
2021
Arabic with English subtitles
12 mins
Eleven Days in May
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Over the course of 11 days in May 2021, at least 67 children were killed in Gaza. They should never be forgotten. Narrated by Kate Winslet and with music by Max Richter, this film is a diary of those days. Through archive and personal testimony, the film tells the story of each child as an individual boy or girl, with much the same hopes and dreams and ambitions of children everywhere.
Palestine/UK
Foragers
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Sarura
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The Devil’s Drivers
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In the southern West Bank, Hamouda and his cousin Ismail are among the Bedouin drivers who risk their lives smuggling illegal workers over the border. Between them and the destination there is the desert -of which they know every inch- and the heavy presence of the Israeli military patrols. If they are caught, they go to jail. Yet only those fares can help them provide for their families, so they keep on driving and enjoying every day of freedom, as it might just be the last.
90 minutes
Daniel Carsenty
Daniel Carsenty's first film, After Spring Comes Fall, premiered in 2016 at GIFF in Göteborg and won the Award for Best Feature at Zsigmond Vilmos Festival in Sziget, Hungary. He worked as a TV journalist for ARTE and BBC Arabic in the Middle East before moving to Los Angeles in 2019, where he holds a directing fellowship at the American Film Institute. His second feature, The Devil's Drivers, premiered at TIFF and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2021.
The Little Lantern
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Marco Orsini
Marco Orsini is the founder and previous president of the International Emerging Talent Film Association of Monaco (IEFTA). He is the writer, director, and producer of seven acclaimed documentaries. He creates and produces visual content and media campaigns for the UNHCR. Starting his career in television in the 1990’s, Marco produced more than 60 hours of primetime programming for US & South American markets, before turning his talents to writing and directing.