Life in Gaza doesn’t help much in achieving dreams, but Salwa Srour always feels
pleasure while driving the kindergarten bus and bringing children together with
the utmost happiness. She proves that she is able to uncover her dreams despite the unwavering criticisms that follow her.
(Shorts 4)
Arabic with English subtitles
Eyad All-Astal was Born in march, 1987 at Khan Younis city, Palestine. has diploma in French-studies then start movie cinema studies in Franca at the Université-De-Corse(Corté), I directed my first documentary "Give a man a fish"2013: Audiovisual technique studies (picture and sound).
The film starts with a pregnant minor girl who brings us to the idea of marriage of minors, but when the girl enters to a small cinema tent, we will discover that she was hiding her brother under her clothes to look pregnant in order to be able to get the tent in with one ticket.
(Shorts 3)
Arabic with English Subtitles
Mohammed Salam Ibrahim was born 1996 Date, a Student at the Institute of Fine Arts Performing Arts Department Iraq – Basra, he works as a filmmaker, director and photographer
During a beach excursion, Nfissa, a young mother, is lynched to death by a group of young men, while swimming offshore. Nobody seems to witness her disappearing. Anxiety and fear grow among the family, especially as, on the same beach, bathers suddenly die
(Shorts 2)
Arabic (Algerian Dialect) with English subtitles
Algerian director Damien Ounouri is based in Algiers. His first feature documentary FIDAÏ (2012) was produced by Chinese director Jia Zhang Ke. It was screened at TIFF and released in France. His first fiction film KINDIL was part of the Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2016.
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity.
A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.
Arabic with English Subtitles
Larissa Sansour was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem, Palestine, and studied fine arts in London, New York and Copenhagen. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilises video, photography, installation, the book form and the internet. Central to her work is the tug and pull between fiction and reality
A barber’s shop in Switzerland, kept by two Iraqis: A place where refugees from different nationalities come and meet. They all tell of their journeys to Switzerland and about life in exile.
(Shorts 3)
Arabic, Italian with English subtitles
★The director will be present (Q & A)
Sahera Dirbas is an Independent filmmaker, freelance producer with International TV stations .Her Documentary films include "Between Heaven and Earth" " Sumud", "Deir Yassin Village & Massacre".