Editor
An exploration the Arab-Israeli conflict as seen through the memories of a Syrian family as they return to the newly retaken city of Quneitra.
Director
Directed by Qais Al-Zubaidi.
Director
Directed by Qais Al-Zubaidi.
Director
Directed by Qais Al-Zubaidi.
Director
Directors belonging to the PLO film organisations were barred from entering territories under Israeli administration. Kais Al-Zubaidi sent a West-German film team into the territories occupied in 1967. They talked to Palestinian peasants and refugees and to Israeli settlers. The former have lost their fields and meadows and are to be driven further East from the camps in which they lived since 1948. The latter call their new settlement area “liberated land”.
Writer
Based on a novella by Hanna Mina. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes introduce characters the boy encounters in a single workday. The filmmaker explores the child’s vivid imaginary world while tangibly conveying the physical harshness and repressed sexuality of a life spent in poverty and manual labor.
Director
Based on a novella by Hanna Mina. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes introduce characters the boy encounters in a single workday. The filmmaker explores the child’s vivid imaginary world while tangibly conveying the physical harshness and repressed sexuality of a life spent in poverty and manual labor.
Editor
In Gaza, Hamed discovers that his friend Zakaria has business with the Israelis. Hamed, a dreamer who hates the Israelis, decides to go to the West Bank to look for his mother whom he hasn't seen since 1948. But when he meets an Israeli soldier in the desert, his life takes an unexpected turn.
Writer
An oneiric and nocturnal abstraction, The Visit confutes the prejudice that frames Middle Eastern cinema under the restrictive lenses of realism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.
Camera Operator
An oneiric and nocturnal abstraction, The Visit confutes the prejudice that frames Middle Eastern cinema under the restrictive lenses of realism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.
Director
An oneiric and nocturnal abstraction, The Visit confutes the prejudice that frames Middle Eastern cinema under the restrictive lenses of realism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.
Director
Directed by Qais Al-Zubaidi.
