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.
