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Program:

12:45 – 14:38

Put Your Soul on Your Hand  and Walk

Director: Sepideh Farsi

Country: State of Palestine, France

Language: Arabic, English

Runtime: 110 minutes

Year: 2025

Sinopsis: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk provides an intimate and direct insider’s perspective on life in Gaza during the ongoing genocide. The film takes shape through a series of video conversations between filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and young Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.

Screening in collab with Antirasistiska Filmdagar

15:00 – 15:05

One minute silent. Palestinian National Anthem

Intro

Block 1

Janin Jenin

Director: Mohammad Salah Bakri

Country: State of Palestine.

Language: Arabic (English subtitles)

Runtime: 60 minutes

Year: 2024

Sinopsis: After twenty-one years, the shadows of Israeli pursuits still loom, relentlessly chasing the Palestinian director, Mohammed Bakri, for his documentary “Jenin… Jenin”. This film, captured in the aftermath of the brutal Israeli invasion of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, was more than just a documentary—it stood as a vivid testament to the realities of devastation and oppression.

Block 2

16:20-17:32

EveryDay in Gaza

Director: Omar Rammal

Country: State of Palestine, Italy

Language: Arabic (English subtitles)

Runtime: 16 minutes 16 seconds

Year: 2025

Sinopsis: EveryDay in Gaza offers an intimate portrait of life in the Gaza Strip through the daily struggles of the Farra family and Wafa, a woman caring for vulnerable children. Without narration, the film captures dignity and resilience in the face of impossible challenges.

Hind under Siege

Director: Naji Fawwaz Mustafa

Country: Jordan

Language: Arabic (English subtitles)

Runtime: 23 minutes 54 seconds

Year: 2025

Sinopsis: 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.

I Know You Can Hear Me.

Director: Yousef Salhi

Country: State of Palestine.

Language: Arabic (English subtitles)

Runtime: 25 minutes

Year: 2026

Sinopsis: After Saleem is released from prison after twenty years, he stays alone at home, haunted by nightmares, while Cosette tries to reconnect with him and understand why he’s isolating himself, hoping to help him face his past and rebuild their relationship.

13 min Break

Block 3

17:45 – 18:38

SAQFA (Hopeless Clap)

Director: Omar Saleh

Country: Jordan, State of Palestine.

Language: Arabic (English subtitles)

Runtime: 17 minutes 28 seconds

Year: 2025

Sinopsis: 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.

The Banality of Evil

Director: Oscar Vega

Country: Spain

Language: English

Runtime: 20 minutes 50 seconds

Year: 2025

Sinopsis: The short film fictionalizes the events that probably could have occurred in the decision-making spheres of the United States, so that this nation decided to offer unconditional support to Israel in the execution of its military action. The short film rescues the powerful idea coined by Hannah Arendt: “The Banality of Evil”; the best philosopher of the 20th century, a German Jew who emigrated to the United States to escape from Nazism.

Is anyone alive?

Director: Omar Elemawi

Country: State of Palestine, Türkiye

Language: Arabic (English subtitles)

Runtime: 9 minutes 4 seconds

Year: 2024

Sinopsis: When a bombing destroys his house, a father gets stuck under the rubble and desperately looks for help to save his injured daughter. Inspired by true events.

Le Monde

Director: Mohammad Salah Bakri

Country: State of Palestine

Language: Arabic (English subtitles)

Runtime: 6 minutes

Year: 2025

Sinopsis: Inside a café-restaurant called Le Monde, time seems suspended. The place is filled with people from different backgrounds and generations, each immersed in their own private world. At the center of the café, a birthday celebration is taking place — laughter, cake, and colorful decorations fill the room. But in the background, a silent television screen broadcasts images of the war in Gaza. No one notices. In one quiet corner sits an elderly man with his daughter.

in a MOMENT

Director: Asil Majed Alwadiya

Country:  State of Palestine.

Language: Arabic (English subtitles)

Runtime: 5 minutes 25 seconds

Year: 2024

Sinopsis: Dreams in Gaza are being shattered just like homes, with only a moment separating us from death. One blade threatens everyone, and one hand reaches out to save the family.

17- min Break

Block 4

18:55 – 20:00

Exist

Directors: Viktor Telegin, Markus Bengtsson

Country:  Sweden.

Language: English

Runtime: 40 minutes

Year: 2025

Sinopsis: EXIST follows Palestinian skateboarder Aram Sabbah in the weeks leading up to the Olympic qualifications in Dubai, capturing his personal battle in leaving his homeland during the war to pursue his passion for skateboarding and carry the mantle for Palestine.

Do You See Me?

Director: Mo Sati

Country:  State of Palestine.

Language: Arabic (English subtitles)

Runtime: 15 minutes

Year: 2025

Sinopsis: Do You See Me? is a short documentary photopoem confronting the calculated use of starvation as a weapon against Gaza. Through unfiltered frontline images and the voice of a child, the film bears witness to hunger, rubble, and absence—realities numbers cannot carry and headlines cannot hold.

20:00-20:30

Mingle with Palestinian Journalist Bissan Edwan