CURRENT PROJECT
project description
Jul 2024- Aug 2026
This transnational initiative thrives on collaboration—bridging filmmakers, cultural institutions, academics, and grassroots organizations from both Europe and the Middle East. At its heart is a committed team based in Gaza, whose lived experiences bring irreplaceable depth and authenticity to the project. Together, they amplify Palestinian heritage and resistance through storytelling that challenges systems of oppression and imagines pathways to justice and healing.
ACTIVITIES
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The Present
Screening at the Bridge Film Festival.
Jul 2024
financial support
Provide pocket money to 18 freelancers from Gaza.
Aug 2024
3 Nights in Haifa
Screening at AEI Film festival.
SEP 2024
Scholarships
5 Scholarships for Medical Students from Gaza in Turkey
SEP 2024
Films list
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EmpowerIng Art In the Grey Zone
Synospsis
A young Palestinian boy from Gaza is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint. The driver discovers that the boy has already failed to cross the checkpoint. Trouble begins.
Speakers
Speakers will be announced later
Q&A Panel
Revitalizing Healthcare in Palestine
Synospsis
The unfiltered daily life of a young Palestinian trainee nurse in which we delve into the healthcare system within a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon .The drama sheds light on the enduring Palestinian cause and the prevailing situation after decades of conflict.
Speakers
Speakers will be announced later
Q&A Panel
Cultural and Economic Resilience
Synospsis
Following the path of the wild plants to the kitchen, the chases between the foragers and the nature patrols to courtroom defenses, this film captures the joy and knowledge embodied in Palestinian traditions alongside their resilience against prohibitive Israeli laws.
Speakers
Speakers will be announced later
Q&A Panel
A Child’s Journey Across Boundaries
Synospsis
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
Speakers
Speakers will be announced later
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Cultural and Economic Resilience
Synospsis
To the backdrop of the First Intifada, residents in a Palestinian town procure 18 milk cows from a supportive kibbutz. Their aim is to attain self-reliance and establish a local dairy industry. Despite their lack of prior dairy farming experience, do the townsfolk manage to accomplish this feat?
Speakers
Speakers will be announced later
Q&A Panel
Aladdin's Quest for Redemption
Synospsis
The story of the Israeli-Arab conflict is retold in the context of the "Arabian Nights". Scheherazade tells Shahriar the story of Aladdin and the magic lamp. One day, an Israeli soldier steals the lamp. Sindbad and Ali Baba try to help Aladdin. Does Aladdin retrieve his magic lamp?
Speakers
Speakers will be announced later
Q&A Panel
77 Years of the UDHR: Prisoner Rights into Action
Synospsis
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18.
Speakers
Speakers will be announced later
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Protection of Education in Conflict Zones:
Synospsis
This documentary follows the journey of a determined Palestinian student from Gaza as she battles political barriers and personal challenges in her quest to pursue a scholarship at Portland State University.
Speakers
Speakers will be announced later
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GALLERY
For every spirit lost in an injust conflict, for every tree torn from its roots , for each archaeological treasure stolen from humanity's legacy… we dedicate this endeavour - Palestine Beyond Reel - to the horizon that beckons us and to the generations yet to come.