Separating walls, checkpoints, borders: physical boundaries but also emotional ones. The tales of this programme take us into the protagonists’ inner core as they battle their surroundings and hope for liberation.
Zoo (2022)
Tarik Rimawi | Animation | Germany, Jordan | 8′
Wandering through the Worst Zoo in the World, a young boy Sami is looking for his football. The loner finds more than that when he encounters the little tiger Laziz, who follows him on his quest to find a safe place to play. Against all odds, they become friends. But the remnants of war harbor danger.
Blood Like Water (2022)
Dima Hamdan | Short Fiction | Palestine, UK, France | 15′
Palestinian Shadi embarks on a secret adventure, and accidentally drags his proud family into a trap where they either collaborate with the Israeli occupation or be shamed and humiliated.
An Orange from Jaffa (2022)
Mohammed Almughanni | Short Fiction | Palestine, Poland | 27′
Mohammed, a young Palestinian, is desperately looking for a cab to take him through a checkpoint to his mother, who is waiting for him on the Israeli side. Farouk, the cab driver, hesitates because the young man has no pass, only a European resident’s card. Arriving at the checkpoint, Farouk discovers that Mohammed has already tried unsuccessfully to cross the border via Qalandia…The trouble begins…
Sokrania 59 (2023)
Abdallah Al-Khatib | Short Fiction | France, Algeria, Jordan | 21′
In Germany, a family of Syrian refugees of Palestinian origin is suddenly forced to cohabit with new residents: Maria and her daughter Sofia, who are fleeing the war in Ukraine.