01/22 – 6 p.m. Day 3: Animation cinema “Animated Palestine”: 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
Thursday, 01/22 from 6 to 9 p.m
Total duration of the projection 107’35 mins
May Odeh, Dia Azzeh,
Drawing for Better Dreams /
2015, 4:18 min
synopsis: Using drawings made by Palestinian children between the ages of 9 and 12, it takes us into the occupied territories and into the minds of the children who live there under siege.
Rasmi Damo and FEKRA. Mohammed Saleh, Alaa Damo in Gaza.
Love and War /
4’45 min, 2025, Palestine.
Synopsis: In the war in Gaza, a family chooses generosity despite scarcity and danger: they share their last flour with neighbors, and when they run out of food, their kindness is reciprocated. They share the bread they bake again. Made during Animation Film Workshop in Gaza.
Ahmad Saleh
night / lil
2021, Germany, Qatar, Palestine, Jordan. 15’57 min
synopsis: The dust of war keeps the eyes awake. The night brings peace and sleep to all the people of the bankrupt city. Only the eyes of the missing girl’s mother remain open. The night must trick her into falling asleep and thus save her soul.
Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan
The Wanted 18 /
2014, Canada, 75 min
synopsis: Through an ingenious mix of stop-motion animation and interviews with Beit Sahour activists, Israeli military officials and the cows themselves, it tells the astonishing story: the Israeli military’s pursuit of 18 cows whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared “a threat to the national security of the State of Israel.”
