Kids Short Films 3
Yaman
2019
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Kids Short Films 2
The Boy and the Sea
Strange Cities Are Familiar
Synopsis
A film about memories, guilt, and resilience. Inspired by the writing of Mourid Barghouti and the director's personal and family experiences, this is the story of Ashraf, a Palestinian father living in the UK, who is struggling to confront the memories that haunt him: the promises he could not keep, and the family he could not protect.
Saeed Taji Farouky
Saeed Taji Farouky is a Palestinian/Egyptian/British filmmaker who has been producing work around themes of conflict, human rights, and colonialism since 1998. His latest documentary, TELL SPRING NOT TO COME THIS YEAR, premiered at the Berlinale 2015 where it won the Audience Choice Panorama award and the Amnesty Human Rights Award. His films focus on exile and the lingering trauma of conflict, and he tells intimate, personal stories with an emphasis on humanism and its mirror image: surrealism. STRANGE CITIES ARE FAMILIAR is his second fiction film.
I Signed the Petition
Synopsis
Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyzes, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel.
Mahdi Fleifel
Mahdi Fleifel (born in Dubai) is a Danish-Palestinian film director who graduated from the UK National Film & Television School. In 2010, he co-founded the London-based production company Nakba FilmWorks. Mahdi’s critically-acclaimed debut feature, A WORLD NOT OURS (2012) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and received over 30 awards, including the Berlinale Peace Film Prize, the Edinburgh, Yamagata and DOC:NYC Grand Jury Prizes.
Søren Lind
Søren Lind (b. 1970) is a Danish author, director and scriptwriter. With a background in philosophy, Søren wrote books on mind, language and understanding and has published novels, short story collections and several children’s books before turning to film and fiction. His work was screened and exhibited at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide, including the 58th Venice Biennial, MoMA (US), Barbican (UK), Nikolaj Kunsthal (DK), Berlinale (D), International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) and BFI London Film Festival (UK).
Larissa Sansour
Larissa Sansour is a Palestinian artist/director who ventures with the tug and pull between fiction and reality, often using science fiction to address social and political issues. Working mainly with film, Larissa also produces installations, photos, and sculptures. She has shown her work in prominent film festivals and museums, including the Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, the Istanbul Biennial, the Berlinale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Bluecoat in Liverpool, Dar El-Nimer in Beirut, and Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen.
