Nordic Palestinian Film Festival - Helsingborg March 19, 2026
📍Cafe Ray, Helsingborg
⏰ 15:00—20:00
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Tickets: 100 SEK per BLOCK (80 SEK for senior/culture worker/student)
Pre-sale tickets to Block 1
Pre-sale tickets to Block 2
Program:
Block 1 – 15:05 – 16:00
Hind Rajab under Siege.
Director: Naji Fawwaz Mustafa
Country: Jordan
Language: Arabic (English subtitles)
Runtime: 23 minutes 54 seconds
Year: 2025
Synopsis: Hind Under Siege is a short film that tells the story of a real phone call between the Red Crescent and 6-year-old Hind Rajab, who became trapped in a car while hiding in Gaza. The film unfolds through the perspective of Rana Al-Faqih, a compassionate and resilient Red Crescent worker, and those who bore witness to the event. It offers an intimate and powerful portrayal of courage, helplessness, and the human toll of war — as experienced by those who tried to help and those who were left behind.
SAQFA (Hopeless Clap)
Director: Omar Saleh
Country: Jordan, State of Palestine.
Language: Arabic (English subtitles)
Runtime: 17 minutes 28 seconds
Year: 2025
Synopsis: Set in northern Gaza in early 2024, “Saqfa” follows a small family torn apart after the father is captured during the ground invasion by the occupying forces. Raneem must lead her blind younger sister, Aseel, on a perilous journey through Salah al-Din Road and the Netzarim axis — paths that have become deadly frontlines where sisterhood and survival are tested amid the war.
No Time to Play
Director: Mostafa Ebrahimi
Country:
Language: Arabic (English subtitles)
Runtime: 15 minutes
Year: 2025
Sinopsis: “No Time to Play” follows Mohammad, a thirteen-year-old boy navigating life in the Rafah refugee camp without his parents. Since October 2023, he has shouldered the responsibility of caring for his siblings — most tenderly his six-month-old sister. Over the course of a year, his quiet resilience becomes a testament to childhood interrupted and the fragile strength born from loss.
Block 2 – 16:15 – 20:00
Palestinian on the road
Director: Ismail Mohamed Alhabbash
Country: State of Palestine
Language: Arabic (English subtitles)
Runtime: 1 hour 22 minutes 49 seconds
Year: 2025
Sinopsis: Ismail, a Palestinian filmmaker long deprived of the freedom to move within his own land, finally sets out on a journey following the path that Jesus once walked — from Nazareth to Jerusalem.
Q&A with the film director for 15 minutes
Three stories from Gaza
Director: Mohammed Khamis
Country: State of Palestine, Sweden
Language: Arabic, English.
Runtime: 21 minutes 45 seconds
Year: 2022
Sinopsis: The film “Stories from Gaza” monitors aspects of the events that took place in the 2012 Gaza war during the 8-day Israeli occupation. The film, which is of a short documentary type, tells the story of journalist Emad and the stories he lived and documented as an archive during the war, and how he faced difficulties and dangers during the period. In which he depicted the story of the two children “Rham” and “Nader” who died as a result of the Israeli bombing of the besieged city.
Q & A 15 min
Gaza Gatan: Work under development seminar
15 minutes 15 min feedback
19:00-20:00
Poetry Reading
Bisan Adwan (Letters from the Diaspora) + Live Palestinian Folk Music
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