In a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, two boys decided to send a message to the American president Barack Obama through his Facebook page. They ask him, as the president of the United States, to intervene and end the siege on the Gaza Strip, and they invite him and his wife to visit the Strip and witness people's hardships there. But they never receive a response. They decide to use a small video camera to record a very angry video message addressed to Barack Obama from the people of the camp.
(Short Sunbird 2)
Arabic with English Subtitles
Mohanad Salahat is an independent filmmaker and writer born in Nablus, 1981. He has written and directed a number of fiction and documentary films and TV series. He also works as a consultant for a number of media companies and organisations in Arab countries.
Since 2012, he has been based in Stockholm, Sweden, and has been working as an independent producer and director in Europe and Arab countries.
Saken is a film about a fighter called Ibrahim Salameh and his caretaker Walid. Walid, an Egyptian man who came to Jordan to find work, was unaware that his path would cross with Ibrahim’s, and that together they would experience one of the strongest bonds two human beings could share. Saken is a film about friendship and sacrifice, how some people’s destinies are linked and hard to be broken.
Arabic with English Subtitles
The Last One Picked, 10 Stories of Life with Donn Hutchison, is a film that documents the life of Donn Hutchison, an American Palestinian teacher who has been living in Palestine for the past 50 years. From Edinboro in Pennsylvania, he arrived to Ramallah to work for the Friends School, got married to a Palestinian woman, who, 9 years later died, leaving him with two children, Rana and Ramzi.
English
★The director will be present (Q & A)
Street-photographer, documentary filmmaker, blogger and tour guide, Bassam currently works as a media consultant. He is also studying for an MA in Geography at Birzeit University, focusing on environmental issues. Bassam was born in Jenin and is married with two children.
Born in Tehran. “Football Under Cover”, his 1st feature documentary premiered at the International Berlin Film Festival, 2008, and won several awards. “No Land’s Song“ his 2nd feature documentary premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival, 2014, and has shown in more than 90 Festivals.