Light Horizon
أفق خفيف- GOLAN HEIGHTS / 2012 / No Dialogue / Color / Digital file / 8 min
Director: Randa Maddah
Photography: Akram Halabi
Editing: Angie Obeid, Dani Abo Louh
The Golan Heights of Syria was subjected to a military invasion by Israel in 1967. In this film, set among the ruins left in a village that, like Palestine, became occupied territory, a woman’s everyday acts of cleaning and arranging a room are portrayed. This short film shows how small, daily gestures become acts of resistance against large-scale violence.
To a Land Unknown
إلى عالم مجهول- UK, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, THE NETHERLANDS, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, PALESTINE / 2024 / Arabic, Greek, English / Color / Digital file / 105 min
Director: Mahdi Fleifel
Script: Mahdi Fleifel, Fyzal Boulifa, Jason McColgan
Photography: Thodoros Mihopoulos
Editing: Halim Sabbagh
Sound: Steve Bond, Martin Hernandez
Music: Nadah El Shazly
Producers: Geoff Arbourne, Mahdi Fleifel
Cast: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbagh, Angeliki Papoulia, Mohammad Alsurafa
Production Companies: Inside Out Films, Nakba Filmworks World Sales: Salaud Morisset
Chatila and his cousin Reda were born in a Palestinian refugee camp. Dreaming of emigrating to Germany, they work in Athens to raise money to obtain fake passports. Reda, tired of their hard life, turns to drugs. This is the first feature-length fiction film by Mahdi Fleifel, winner of the YIDFF 2013 International Competition Grand Prize for A World Not Ours (2012).
Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza
مشاهد من الاحتلال في غزة- LEBANON / 1973 / Arabic / B&W / Digital file (Original: 16mm)/ 13 min
Director: Mustafa Abu Ali
Editing: Emile Bahri
Music: George Abyad
Voiceover: Issam Sakhnini, Rasmi Abu Ali
Produced by: Palestine Cinema Group of the Palestine Research Center
Palestine Cinema Group, a film collective based in Palestine, produced this work to drive forward the Palestinian Revolution. Director Mustafa Abu Ali used French news footage as the main source material, reconfiguring it with voice-overs to inspire the revolution.