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 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.