01/20 – 6 p.m. Day 1: Animation cinema “Animated Palestine”: Opening. Screenings and discussion
Animated Palestine is a collective of Palestinian and international animation directors. Our films explore various aspects of Palestinian life under occupation. Faced with genocide, we felt the need to come together as an artistic community to support each other, strengthen ties and spread stories of Palestine: stories of pain, resistance and hope, as an antidote to death and destruction.
Screenings: Khaled Jarada, Sherin Abdel Karim, Amal Al-Nakhala, Ahmad Saleh, Samira Badran, Jana Kattan, Tariq Rimawi, Basel Nasr, Dana Durr, Rami Abbas, Msallam Hdaib, Amer Shomali, Faiza Afifi, Dia’Azzeh, Abod Naser, Mats Grorud, Haneen Karaz, NourAbdel Jawad, Shorouq Darwish and Rasmi Damo, May Odeh
Free entry with reverse box office.
**All money raised at this event – cinema tickets and sale of exhibited works – will go entirely to the artists and directors of Gaza**
CINEMA BILLBOARD – ANIMATED PALESTINE
Tuesday 01/20 from 6 to 9 p.m
Total duration of the projection 93:23 min
Haneen Koraz, Shorouq Darwish and Nour A-Jawad
A day in the tent / يوم في الخيمة
Collective workshop. 2024, Palestine. 4’04 min
synopsis: Portrait of a family of nine trying to make ends meet while living in tents in wartime Gaza. Work created by a group of displaced children in the Deir al-Balah camp during the genocide in Gaza.
Ahmad Saleh
House /
2012, Almania, Jordan. 3’50 min
synopsis: For generations, a family lived in a spacious, beautiful and generous house. Guests were always welcome, until a guest arrived with a different plan in mind.
Samira Badran
Memory of the Land
2017, Spain, Palestine. 12’50 min
Synopsis: A body is trapped in an Israeli occupation checkpoint. The body is pierced by structural and physical violence, aggressive and arbitrary, which prevents and attacks its free movement and existence.
Shereen Abdul Karim
Through the Eye of a Needle / From the hole
2022, Palestine. 4’53 min
Synopsis: It shows satirical and realistic scenes of public space in Gaza and explores its conceptual landscape through digitization and 3D modeling, imagining what it might look like while the blockade persists.
Jana Kattan
checkpoint / checkpoint
2021, United Kingdom. 5’50 min
synopsis: Leila, an 11-year-old girl in the West Bank wakes up before dawn every day to try to get to school on time. His obstacle is the military occupation of his territory, specifically the dreaded checkpoint he must cross daily to go to class.
Amal Al-Nakhala
limitless /
2024, Palestine. 4’48 min
Synopsis: The raw symbolism reflects the complexities of the truth in Gaza, where nothing is simple or easy to define.
Tariq Rimawi
Missing /
2010, Palestine. 3 minutes
synopsis: A window opens into the life of a boy living in a war-torn area, where he yearns for his favorite sport: football.
Tariq Rimawi
Zoo
2022, Jordan, Germany, supported by RFC and Robert Bosch. 8’12 min
synopsis: Wandering through the world’s worst zoo, a boy named Sami searches for his soccer ball.
Rami Abbas
Hide & Seek / غُميّضة
2024, Palestine, Spain. 7 minutes
synopsis: A boy and his fish embark on a journey into the unknown during the war that ravages the country.
Faiza Afifi
homeland /
2024, 1:54 min
Synopsis: In this homeland, a fish caught in a fishbowl becomes a journey in which the earth dissolves, carrying with it the countless roots of centuries, and passing through cycles of death and rebirth in new forms.
Khaled Jarada
The Dream Collector / Le Collecteur de rêves
2021, Palestine. 3’23 min
synopsis: A wish you can only mutter to seashells before throwing them into the ocean. In Gaza, where the sea is closed to dreams, the dream collector appeared.
Abod Nasser
Fatality /
2025, Palestine. 1’12 min
synopsis: Based on the pictorial work of Mohamad Joha. Gaza is not just a city that is being destroyed; it is a memory that is erased, a map devoured piece by piece, a body bombarded until it loses its features, a crushed soul.
Msalam Hdaib
No body / бла жад
2025, Jordan. 6’45 min
Synopsis: In war-torn Gaza, the decapitated head of a young man must confront love, loss, and the haunting question: Can happiness exist when your body and your world have been ripped away?
Dana Durr
Mary /
2020, Palestine, Netherlands, 5 min
synopsis: A young woman climbs her favorite olive tree and savors moments of her precious paradise, until her peace is shattered.
Basel Nasr
Uncle, Give Me a Cigarette / عمي عطيني سيجارة
2023, Palestine, 4’50 min
synopsis: While waiting for a prison transfer, Walid receives a strange request in a mysterious whisper. The film is inspired by the story of Walid Daqqa, who endured 27 years in the prisons of the Israeli occupation. The film is the result of a workshop supervised by the graphic studio Al Masna in collaboration with the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees.
Basel Nasr
Land Day
2024, Palestine. 1’28 min
synopsis: In Palestine, in the month of March, the year of the intifada, the land revealed its bloody secrets to us.
Basel Nasr and Ahmad Saleh
Concrete Sky /سماع خرسانية
2025, Palestine, Ramallah. 5’43 min
Synopsis: The daily journey of the balloon girl, who witnesses the effects of the apartheid wall as it separates children from their schools, families from each other and the people of their land.
