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 (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.