Gaza RAM

Director: Abod Nasser
Short | Animation | PS | Production

Synopsis:
When leaving Gaza becomes conditional on erasing every trace of your existence, a young woman is given the opportunity to evacuate to France, on the condition that she leaves all her personal belongings behind. A series of nightmares begins, blurring reality and memory. Realizing that her memories may be the only thing she can carry with her, she decides to transfer her entire archive into her mind, attempting to smuggle her memory across the border.

Abod Nasser

Abod Nasser Is a Palestinian visual artist and animator, born in Gaza in 2000 and currently based in Paris, where he is pursuing a Master’s degree at the École des Arts Décoratifs in the Cinema Department, specializing in animation. His practice moves between animation, visual art, and cinema, exploring themes of memory, survival, and the psychological transformations shaped by life in Gaza.

His films and visual works have been exhibited and screened in Palestine, France, and internationally, including at the Institut du Monde Arabe and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He received the Best Comic Film Award from the French Institute in Gaza for Le Collecteur des Rêves, and has contributed to several film projects within their art departments, including Gaza Mon Amour and Once Upon a Time in Gaza.

Your specter will remain present in my mind

Director: Fairouz Hassan
Short | Hybrid | PS | Production

Synopsis:
An experimental documentary film that follows martyr posters across cities, tracing how walls become a living archive of memory, loss, and resistance. Through close observation of weathered, torn, and repeatedly replaced images, that reflects on how public space preserves grief while time, violence, become witnesses to different ways of death

Fairouz Hassan

Fairouz Hassan is a Palestinian filmmaker, curator, and interdisciplinary artist a Film Directing graduate of Dar Al-Kalima University. Across experimental cinema, documentary, installation, and audiovisual performance, she investigates memory, political absence, imprisonment, and grief through archival, fragmented imagery. Lovely Butterfly (2026), tracing her father's twenty years in Israeli prisons through their letters, premiered at Visions du Réel, with selections at Cannes, Curtas Vila do Conde, and FIDCampus (FIDMarseille). Recent works: False Vectors (2025) with Muqata'a, and A Tree Fenced In (2025)installation. She curated We Are Not A Spectre at Dar Jacir and shorts for Ekrani i Artit.

Mirrors

Director: Nizar Alzaeem
Short | Animation | UK | Development

Synopsis:
The life of a family — it could be any family, anywhere - its joys, its ordinary rhythms, its violent erasure — is witnessed entirely through the surface of a mirror: when only a young girl survives bombing and displacement, she goes into the looking-glass, where the final reflection she finds is herself.

Nizar Alzaeem

Nizar Alzaeem (family name Daraghmeh) was born in the West Bank in 2002. He studied at Birzeit University, 2022-25, where he graduated with a BA in English and linguistics. He has been collaborating in the development of feature films (notably “Mimesis”) and shorts (“Mirrors” and “Can”) with Appledore Films since 2025. He has been accepted to study scriptwriting at Goldsmiths College, London. He has also received a scholarship from Sussex University. His work explores themes of identity, displacement, and performance through character-driven storytelling.

MILAD - The Birth of Walid

Directors: Basel Nasr, Ahmad Saleh, Mats Grorud
Feature | Animation | PS, JD, NO | Development

Synopsis:
While serving a life sentence, Palestinian writer Walid Daqqa and five animal companions attempt to solve a riddle posed by an ancient olive tree about how to achieve real freedom.

Ahmed Saleh

Basel Nasr

Mats Groud

Ahmad Saleh (b. 1980) is a filmmaker, writer, director, and professor of animation. At the age of 18, he returned to Palestine, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering. Inspired by life in Palestine, Ahmad began writing and published his first short story collection, which received the A.M. Qattan Foundation's Young Writer Award. In 2007, he moved to Germany, where he earned two master’s degrees—one in Digital Media and another in Film Writing and Directing. His award-winning short films HOUSE (2012, German Short Film Award), AYNY (2016, Student Academy Award), and NIGHT (2021, Locarno Film Festival premiere) have screened globally.

Basel Nasr (b. 1980) is an animator, producer, and educator with over 20 years of experience in animation and visual storytelling. He co-founded ZAN Studio in 2005 and established Al-Masna, an animation studio in Ramallah, in 2015. His work spans 2D and stop-motion animation, motion graphics, and documentary storytelling—frequently exploring themes of everyday life, identity, and socio-political issues. In addition to creating, he teaches animation and designs training programs for emerging artists and educators.

Mats Grorud (b. 1976) is a Norwegian director and screenwriter. He made his feature directorial debut with the animated film The Tower (Wardi), which premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2018, screened at over 200 festivals worldwide, made the 2019 Oscar longlist, and won numerous international awards. Educated in Norway, Denmark, Tanzania, Lebanon, and China, Grorud draws deeply on his global experiences to craft socially and politically engaged work. He has operated his production company, Nubbsjangs Production, since 2003, co-founded "Palestine Animated," and initiated "Posters for Palestine — Norway." His directorial works include My Grandmother Beijing (2008) and Santa Klaus (2010), alongside animation credits on Grandpa Is a Raisin (dir. Pjotr Sapegin, 2004) and Backyard Stories (dir. Trygve Nielsen / Julie Engaas / Svend Ask, 2005).

On the Sea Road

Director: Fitnat Waked
Feature | Documentary | PS | Post-Production

Synopsis:
Amid war, through cameras and WhatsApp calls, a fragile yet powerful friendship unfolds between two young Palestinian women - one in besieged Gaza, the other in Yafa - as they struggle to stay connected while distance and collapsing communication threaten to separate them. Their bond becomes both a lifeline and an act of quiet resistance, revealing solidarity, the painful contradictions of their radically unequal realities, and a shared search for freedom and identity.

Fitnat Waked

Fitnat Waked is a Palestinian filmmaker and producer from Yafa working across documentary and fiction. Her films explore identity, memory, womanhood, and belonging through intimate, self-reflexive storytelling rooted in lived experience.

In 2025, her short documentary “The Voices of Souls” was selected for the Al Jazeera Short Doc Competition and screened on Al Jazeera’s digital platforms. In 2026, she completed “SADA”, her first short fiction film.

She is currently directing and producing “On the Sea Road”, her first feature documentary, unfolding between Yafa and Gaza, while continuing to explore self-representation, connection, and Palestinian experience through participatory and character-driven cinema.

The Sky is No Longer Blue

Director: Kareem Satoom
Feature | Documentary | PS | Development

Synopsis:
The film follows three artists from Gaza as they experience genocide through their bodies, memories, and art, where creative work becomes a direct extension of what they endure: fear, loss, and survival. Through graffiti, sculpture, and painting, they attempt to transform the traces of violence into image, material, and memory—not to aestheticize the devastation, but to understand it and resist its erasure. Alongside their stories, Gaza emerges as a fourth character: a city present in the walls, rubble, sea, alleyways, and faces, shaping the artists’ bodies, memories, and work. The three trajectories intersect to reveal how body, memory, city, and art become intertwined in an ongoing attempt to preserve humanity amid genocide.

Kareem Satoom

Kareem Stoom is an actor, theater director, and filmmaker from Al-Shati Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. Born in 2002, I grew up in an artistic environment that contributed to shaping my artistic development from an early age. I began my career in theater through acting, directing, and stagecraft, before moving into filmmaking. I directed my short film Janna Jahannam (Paradise of Hell), which is 6 minutes long and received the Hope Award at the Amman International Film Festival. The film was also screened as part of a collection of short films in several countries around the world.

This is Not a Set

Director: Yumna Marwan
Feature | Fiction | LBN, JO | Development

Synopsis:
A satirical nightmare into the unravelling of a Palestinian community in Beirut as a local television production turns their camp into a film set, forcing them to confront the seductions and violences of representation.

Rakan Mayasi

Yumna Marwan is an actress and filmmaker from Beirut. After a fifteen-year career in acting, she is now writing and directing films rooted in her experience of Beirut, and with the communities and political perspectives that have shaped her. Her first upcoming feature This Is Not a Set turns the mirror toward the film industry, asking existential questions through absurdist drama and satirical comedy.

+477 Nights

Director: Aisha Alqraan
Feature | Documentary | PS | Post-Production

Synopsis:
What does it mean to be sitting among your children and grandchildren, your wife and daughters around you, while the children play inside and outside a tent—and suddenly, a single missile weighing a ton or more falls upon you, erasing every detail of life and turning it into ash and blackened land? From here, our documentary film begins—to tell the story of life before the life of that family.

Aisha Alqraan

Aisha Adli Alqraan is a journalist, professional photographer, and documentary filmmaker from Gaza. She began her career in 2014 at the Women’s Affairs Center, and later received a diploma in photography from the Islamic University, Gaza. She has participated in several photography exhibitions and worked professionally in photography. Aisha has contributed as a correspondent to various local and international media outlets, including Al-Islamiyah University – Gaza and the French news agency AFP, covering current events and humanitarian stories. She has also worked in broadcast media, including freelance projects for channels like Al Jazeera. Aisha is a multifaceted artist, serving as a director, writer, and producer of short dramatic films and documentaries

Concrete Land

Director: Asmahan Bkerat
Feature | Documentary | PS, JO | Post-Production

Synopsis:
An intimate story of a three-generational Palestinian Bedouin family and their animals on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan, as relentless development reshapes their world. Facing eviction, displacement, and an uncertain future, they struggle to survive in an environment that is becoming increasingly unlivable and unrecognizable.

Asmahan Bkerat

Asmahan Bkerat is a Palestinian-Jordanian documentary filmmaker. She started her career as a photographer and social justice advocate. Bkerat’s first short documentary “Badrya'' won the Jury Prize for Best MiniDoc at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. She is currently directing /Producing her first feature-length documentary “Concrete Land” and producing the feature doc “Harvest Moon”, and “If These Stones Could Talk” alongside a few other short doc films.

To Make Things Grow

Director: Yasmin Fedda
Feature | Documentary | UK | Development

Synopsis:
Uncovering the story of the visionary agricultural orphanage the Farm School of Deir Amro in Palestine in the 1940s through a collage of archive film, first person testimony, official documents and personal photographs. Pointing towards hope and inspiration to the future, the film explores how the intertwining of land, community and family leave an indelible mark through history.

Yasmin Fedda

Yasmin Fedda is a Palestinian artist, filmmaker, cultural producer, and academic. Her award-winning films, including Ayouni, Queens of Syria, and Breadmakers, have screened at festivals and broadcast on TV. Her work has earned a BAFTA nomination and awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Prototype. Her work has screened at numerous international film festivals including Sundance, CPH:DOX, Edinburgh FF, Carthage FF, and others, and exhibited in diverse venues—including the London Underground, the Special Olympics, Battersea Arts Centre, and Kunsthall Charlottenburg. She has led multi-arts festivals and events across several countries, including being a co-founder and advisor for Together for Palestine. She has had artist residences including at British School at Rome and the National Theatre Immersive Storytelling Studio. She has an MA in Visual Anthropology, a PhD in Trans-Disciplinary Documentary Film, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Film at Queen Mary University of London.

The Story of the Mountain

Director: Shayma' Awawdeh
Feature | Hybrid | PS, FR | Development

Synopsis:
In Hebron, occupied Palestine, I film children in an animation workshop imagining a magical mountain that turns into a giant grandmother who can fulfill their dream of destroying the checkpoint at their neighborhood’s entrance.

Shayma' Awawdeh

Shayma' Awawdeh is a Palestinian filmmaker whose work explores themes of memory and childhood under occupation. A graduate in filmmaking, she has directed three short films: 4th Floor 2019, This Home Is Ours 2024, and Intersecting Memory 2025. She has also worked in the camera department on several films and has led filmmaking workshops for children, using cinema as a tool for creative expression.

Azziza: In a Cherished Land

Director: Tareq Khalaf
Feature | Documentary | PS | Post-Production

Synopsis:
Worried about the deteriorating political situation in the West-Bank, Azziza asks Tareq to leave Palestine and join the rest of his family in the US, leaving her and his grandmother alone in a state of war. Tareq takes sanctuary in Azziza’s garden, observing her seasonal way of living while confronting the difficult decision to leave.

Tareq Khalaf

Tareq Khalaf is a filmmaker, architect, and cultural producer based in Ramallah, Palestine. His research in urbanism focuses on the disappearance of agrarian livelihoods and rooted forms of belonging to place. Tareq has used film, socially engaged art and sculpture to address geographic fragmentation and the alienating impacts of settler colonial violence in Palestine. As the cultural manager at Sakiya, Tareq’s work has revolved around the preservation of agrarian knowledge and ways of living, as well as finding visual and narrative form to speak about the entanglements of political and ecological crises in his homeland.

Trash

Director: Leen Kanan
Short | Fiction | PS | Production

Synopsis:
At a tense military checkpoint, a Palestinian truck driver’s life is threatened when he reaches for his fallen prayer beads, but his small act of courage turns fear into a silent uprising, reclaiming dignity from the routine of oppression.

Leen Kanan

Leen Kanan is a Palestinian filmmaker. She graduated in 2022 from the American University of Sharjah with a BA in Multimedia Design. Since then, she has been building her path in cinema through work as a camera assistant, assistant director, and editor. Her experience includes working as a second assistant director on Passing Dreams by Rashid Masharawi. She is currently directing her first short fiction film, Trash.

Issa and the Forest

Director: Rama Heib
Short | Animation | PS | Development

Synopsis:
A young boy living at the top of a mountain discovers a mysterious forest nearby. His decision to follow a strange creature and venture into the forest will alter his fate forever.

Rama Heib

Rama Heib (b. 1995) is a Palestinian writer and director born in Nazareth. She studied Literature and Art History at Tel Aviv University and holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from University College London (UCL). She has also participated in a filmmaking program at Tel Aviv University through which she produced her first short film, “Nostalgia” (2023).

Her background in literature, photography, and film intertwines with her interest in and focus on exploring self and identity, alienation and familial relations.

Where the Light Rests

Director: Islam Tuaima
Short | Documentary | Palestine | Production

Synopsis:
After Asmaa lost her husband and children in the war, she lives alone in her sister’s home, surrounded by their memories and her daily rituals. The film documents her inner journey through pain, loss, and faith, as she tries to understand the meaning of her children’s existence after their departure. From reading her daily writings to visiting the graves, the light in her life becomes a symbol of clarity and hope—revealing that her loved ones have not left the world, but are “sleeping in the light.”

Islam Tuaima

Islam Tuaima is a Palestinian filmmaker from Gaza who has worked on several poetic documentary films. Her work focuses on memory, loss, and the experiences of women and survivors within contexts of war and social transformation. She tends to blend human-centered storytelling with visual research in her projects, seeking to build a sensitive cinematic language rooted in both personal and collective experiences in Gaza.

Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep

Director: Rakan Mayasi
Feature | Hybrid | BE, PS, LEB, QA, KSA | Post-Production

Synopsis:
In a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, two sisters walk into the night not as daughters, but as offerings—where blood, memory, and silence attempt to keep the fire from spreading.

Aisha Alqraan

Rakan Mayasi is a Palestinian filmmaker born in Germany, based between Brussels and Beirut. He studied Cinema, Theatre, and Psychology in Lebanon, trained with Abbas Kiarostami in South Korea, and holds an MA in Filmmaking from LUCA School of Arts in Belgium. His shorts include; ROUBAMA (Locarno 2012), BONBONÉ (TIFF 2017, Netflix), and TRUMPETS IN THE SKY (TIFF 2021, France 3). He trained with Béla Tarr in Budapest and premiered his political fantasy THE KEY at SXSW 2023 (Canal+). His debut feature—shot in the Bekaa Valley with non-actors — a hybrid fiction-nonfiction follows a family’s search for a missing girl. His second feature script, THE PASSPORT, was selected for La Fabrique at Cannes 2025.