At the age of 15, Muhammad's life changed drastically. This film follows the journey of recovery through the eyes of this young Palestinian circus artist, who is forced to balance the consistent trauma of death and his essential will to be alive.
(Short Program 4)
Arabic with English Subtitles
★The director will be present (Q & A)
An intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of a dynamic popular resistance leader from Palestine who left her full-time job with the UN to return to her home village of al-Walaja and fight for its survival. Shot on location over a four-year-period, 'Sheerin of al-Walaja' provides a refreshingly candid insight into just what it is that motivates someone to put their life on hold in favour of becoming a full-time activist.
( Shorts 4)
Arabic with English Subtitles
In 2010, Abu Eyad and other young Palestinian men from the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon travelled with smugglers through Syria and Turkey into Greece. Like so many other migrants, they come looking for a way into Europe but found themselves trapped in a country undergoing economic, political, and social collapse.
(Shorts 1)
Arabic with English Subtitles
Life in Gaza doesn’t help much in achieving dreams, but Salwa Srour always feels
pleasure while driving the kindergarten bus and bringing children together with
the utmost happiness. She proves that she is able to uncover her dreams despite the unwavering criticisms that follow her.
(Shorts 4)
Arabic with English subtitles
The film starts with a pregnant minor girl who brings us to the idea of marriage of minors, but when the girl enters to a small cinema tent, we will discover that she was hiding her brother under her clothes to look pregnant in order to be able to get the tent in with one ticket.
(Shorts 3)
Arabic with English Subtitles
During a beach excursion, Nfissa, a young mother, is lynched to death by a group of young men, while swimming offshore. Nobody seems to witness her disappearing. Anxiety and fear grow among the family, especially as, on the same beach, bathers suddenly die
(Shorts 2)
Arabic (Algerian Dialect) with English subtitles
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity.
A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.
Arabic with English Subtitles
A barber’s shop in Switzerland, kept by two Iraqis: A place where refugees from different nationalities come and meet. They all tell of their journeys to Switzerland and about life in exile.
(Shorts 3)
Arabic, Italian with English subtitles
★The director will be present (Q & A)
This short film is discussing the issue of how conditions of war leave physiological effects on Palestinians and it’s very difficult for those effects to disappear easily. But sometimes you find the light inside of you, even if your eyes can only see darkness.
( Short Sunbird 1)
Arabic with English subtitles
★The director will be present (Q & A)
As Malik struggles to cope with his temporary detention for the high school examinations, he develops two habits to escape his reality; listening to the radio and peeking at his neighbor.
(Short Sunbird 1)
Arabic with English subtitles
★The director will be present (Q & A)