GPU FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

At the Global Peace & Unity Festival

19th and 20th October

Presents

PALESTINIAN FILM FESTIVAL: A SHORTS PROGRAMME + SCREEN TALKS

Films

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

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

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

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

Son of the Streets

Khodor (13) a child whose family tries to issue him an ID document that proves his existence and gives him the right to education, healthcare and movement outside of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Lebanon. Throughout the process, many of the family old secrets get revealed.

Director: Mohammed AlMughanni

Duration: 33mins

Year: 2020

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

Shujayya

In Gaza, members of a typical family are thrown into disarray after a series of bombing attacks destroyed their home, killed some of the occupants and left others seriously injured.

Director: Mohammed AlMughanni

Duration: 20mins

Year: 2016

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

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

Programme (Saturday 19 and Sunday 20)

Childhood in Palestine

12:00-13:30

Opening to the Palestine Film Festival
12:00-12:10
A short film about kids (10mins)
12:10-12:20
Road to Palestine (7mins)
12:20-12:30
Son of the Streets (33mins)
12:30-13:00
Screen talk
13:00 – 13:30
Ripple effects of colonialism

13:30 – 15:00

One Minute (11mins)
13:30-13:45
Bethlehem, 2001 (10mins)
13:45-13:55
120KM (30mins)
13:55-14:25
Screen talk
14:25-15:00
Life under occupation and through checkpoints

15:00 – 16:30

An Orange from Jaffa (27mins)
15:00-15:30
The Present (24mins)
15:30-16:00
Screen talk
16:00-16:30
Love under settler colonialism

16:30 – 18:00

Blacklisted (24mins)
16:30-17:00
The Present (24mins)
17:00-17:30
Screen talk
17:30-18:00

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