Films
Like Twenty Impossibles
In occupied Palestine, a landscape marked by military checkpints, a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road. From here onward the political landscape slowly unravels and the crew is taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation.
Meshwar
Hadi is walking in the night; reconsidering his commitment to the girl he is supposed to marry, when Reem dressed as a boy in her attempt to runaway from home jumps and falls in his arms.
Not From Here
Not From Here is a short film that challenges the historical photograph as it morphs before our very eyes. It contests the idea of identity formation while subverting Western hegemonic historical narratives. Unleashing the unheimlich through repetition, it emphasises the multiplicity of moods and representations that can be inhabited in the same Arab women. Dislocating the “”prim and proper”“, it challenges assumptions about race, gender and class.”
Private
Inspired by real events, documentary filmmaker Saverio Costanzo’s feature debut is a minimalist psychological drama about a Palestinian family of seven suddenly confronted with a volatile situation in their home that in many ways reflects the larger ongoing confilct between Palestine and Israel.
Reveilations: Insights into the Hijab
This documentary covers the idea of veiling by Muslim women(better known as hijab by the Muslims) and the many questions instigated by it among Muslims and non-Muslims, There are questions of oppression, choice, religious or cultural role to state a basic few. This documentary is unlike any other documentary on this specific subject matter because it is first of all, being made by women like us who are both educated Muslims and wear the hijab.
Serheldan
Serheldan is 13, Kurdish. She tries to understand her identity and shows us her neighbourhood through several interviews shot with her friend Christine.
Shadi in the Beautiful Well
Shadi is an autistic boy living in the heart of the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el Helweh. One day, his neighbor’s son steals his white pet dove, an event that constantly torments him. However, an unexpected present from his relatives abroad changes everything.