Sameer Qumsiyeh

Military invasions, curfews and loss were realities that the director had to deal with as a child. This short is his revisit to that traumatic past in an attempt for a reconciliation.

Military invasions, curfews and loss were realities that the director had to deal with as a child. This short is his revisit to that traumatic past in an attempt for a reconciliation.

Military invasions, curfews and loss were realities that the director had to deal with as a child. This short is his revisit to that traumatic past in an attempt for a reconciliation.

Military invasions, curfews and loss were realities that the director had to deal with as a child. This short is his revisit to that traumatic past in an attempt for a reconciliation.

Military invasions, curfews and loss were realities that the director had to deal with as a child. This short is his revisit to that traumatic past in an attempt for a reconciliation.

The affaire of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.

The affaire of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.

A Palestinian filmmaker attempts to explore the planet as a backpacker, defying the restrictions of movement imposed on him as a holder of one of the World’s weakest ranking passports. Over a period of 3 years, Sameer Qumsiyeh travels with his personal camera from Palestine, to Europe, to the Canary Islands, and Ecuador (featuring the Amazon) documenting his encounters with other freedom seekers, wanderers, refugees, immigrants, indigenous communities, and nomads, all of whom are facing physical and non-physical borders, barriers, and walls, that are erected between people in our modern time.