At the Global Peace & Unity Festival
19th and 20th October
Presents
PALESTINIAN FILM FESTIVAL: A SHORTS PROGRAMME + SCREEN TALKS
Films
- Fiction
An Orange From Jaffa
Mohammed, a young Palestinian, is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint. The driver, Farouk, discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross the checkpoint. Trouble begins.
Director: Mohammed Almughanni
Duration: 27mins
Year: 2023
- Documentary
One Minute
During the summer of 2014 Gaza war, in the battered neighbourhood of Shujaiya, 37-year-Salma made her home her shelter from the attacks. She and her daughter are protected in relative calm, until she receives a text message warning her of their impending fate.
Director: Dina Naser
Duration: 10mins
Year: 2015
- Documentary
120 KM
In 2015, Palestinian artists Osama Atwa and Waseem Khair visit Lebanon to explore refugee camps and Beirut. Waseem is from an area under Israeli authority, and Osama is from Palestinian authority territory. They visit the camps despite restrictions that have prevented Palestinians from returning to their land since 1948.
Director: Waseem Kheir
Duration: 30mins
Year: 2021
- Documentary
Bethlehem 2001
A young Palestinian wanders between his current reflections and his childhood memories of the military invasion and siege of Bethlehem. He tries to understand how his parents could guide him through those difficult times, hoping that they would help him cope with the present.
Director: Ibrahim Handal
Duration: 15mins
Year: 2020
- Fiction
A Short Film About Kids
Four kids from the refugee camp in Bethlehem decide to visit the sea for the first time in their life.
Director: Ibrahim Handal
Duration: 10mins
Year: 2023
- Fiction
Blacklisted
A Palestinian young man is being interrogated for crossing the border and suspected to be a terrorist while his true intentions stay hidden.
Director: Mohammed AlMughanni
Duration: 24mins
Year: 2021
- Fiction
The Present
Mohammed, a young Palestinian, is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint. The driver, Farouk, discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross the checkpoint. Trouble begins.
Director: Farah Nabulsi
Duration: 24mins
Year: 2020
The Road to Palestine
An animated short film for children. The film is based on the testimony of the girl Laila, who lives in a Palestinian refugee camp.
Director: Layaly Badr
Duration: 7mins
Year: 1985
Programme Sunday
Childhood in Palestine
12:30 - 14:00
Opening to the Palestine Film Festival
12:30-12:40
A short film about kids (10mins)
12:40-12:50
Road to Palestine (7mins)
12:50-13:00
Son of the Streets (33mins)
13:00-13:30
Screen talk
13:30 – 14:00
Ripple effects of colonialism
14:00 - 15:30
One Minute (11mins)
14:00-14:15
Bethlehem, 2001 (10mins)
14:15-14:25
120KM (30mins)
14:25-14:55
Screen talk
14:55-15:30
Life under occupation and through checkpoints
16:30 – 18:00
An Orange from Jaffa (27mins)
16:30-17:00
The Present (24mins)
17:00-17:30
Screen talk
17:30-18:00
Love under settler colonialism
18:00 - 19:30