Short Films

Despite the evidence, a woman refuses to accept her child's death in the midst of a war. She insists on using a mobile phone, a device she doesn't know how to use, to contact him.

(Shorts 1)

Arabic With English Subtitles 

Monsignor Isidore visits an isolated convent to announce its closure. During this assignment, he steps on a land mine. Panic overcomes and faith becomes questionable.

Arabic with English Subtitles

( Short Program1)

By using images drawn by Palestinian children between the ages of 9 and 12, ‘Drawing for Better Dreams’ takes us to the Occupied Territories and into the minds of the kids who live there under siege. By animating the simple crayon drawings, this moving film conjures up the struggles faced by Palestinian children on a daily basis, and demonstrates the power of – and need for – allowing young people to dream.

(Short Sunbird 2 )

No dialog

★The director will be present (Q & A)

In a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, two boys decided to send a message to the American president Barack Obama through his Facebook page. They ask him, as the president of the United States, to intervene and end the siege on the Gaza Strip, and they invite him and his wife to visit the Strip and witness people's hardships there. But they never receive a response. They decide to use a small video camera to record a very angry video message addressed to Barack Obama from the people of the camp.

(Short Sunbird 2)

Arabic with English Subtitles 

A Foreign woman came to the camp to take some photos. a child who is fond of photography notice and follow her closely 

(Short Sunbird 1)

Arabic with English subtitles

★The director will be present (Q & A)

Nader and Abed roam the mountains and dig caves to look for historical remains. The two boys deliver the pieces they find to an antiques dealer who gives them very little money in return. What they find in one remote cave will challenge their friendship. Things become more complicated when adults force themselves into the simple world of the two boys.

(Short Sunbird 1)

Arabic with English subtitles 

★The director will be present (Q & A) 

In a land dotted with killing machines they find an easy cover-up of their crime. But even when the truth starts to find its way out, fate will play a game so common to this land.
Izriqaq is a story about the engraved damage that happens to a place after decades of desensitization with death and killings. It’s about the never-ending loop of patriarchy in a society never in control of its own being.

(Short Sunbird1) 

Arabic with English subtitles 

★The director will be present (Q & A)

During the summer of 2014 Gaza war; in the battered  neighborhood of Shujaiya, 37-year Salam takes her house as a shelter to protect herself and her daughter Alia from the attacks outside, until she receives a message informing her of their impending fate. One Minute takes us through a journey between these moments

(Short Sunbird 1)

Arabic with English sub

★The director will be present (Q & A)

Billiardo tells the story of a kid living with his mother and siblings, their father is absent. They live in a small Palestinian village surrounded with checkpoints .He spends his summer holiday inventing games from recycled material, this time he decide along with his friends to make a Billiardo table by collecting the needed material and move it using their bicycles

(Short Sunbird 2)

Arabic With English Subtitles 

★The director will be present (Q & A)

When the 40-year-old driver of Bus 321 is forced to leave his job, he becomes afraid of riding in or approaching any bus

(Shorts 2)

Arabic with English subtitles