+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.

Three Days and a Third

Director: Rakan Mayasi
Feature | Hybrid | BE, PS, LBN, 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.

Rakan Mayasi

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.

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.