Palestine
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Noor Abed: Small pockets of resistance
PALESTINE: Palestine is one of the most documented lands and peoples. What can be different in filmmaking or art practices to have an impact? Using folktales, artist Noor Abed draws on stories of water wells, communal rituals, and women mourning, singing, and moving together across a landscape. Images that need to resist the history of…
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Concrete Land
PALESTINE: Asmahan Bkerat spent eight years with a landless Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family outside Amman, filming a life built around animals and song that Jordanian bureaucracy is slowly dismantling.
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Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide
PALESTINE: A New York Times memo on banned words becomes the starting point for an argument that language, more than any weapon, has determined what the world believes about Gaza.
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For Life
PALESTINE: Longing for motherhood, a Palestinian woman embarks on a journey to smuggle her husband's sperm out of prison.
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Palestine ’36
PALESTINE: Palestine ’36 revisits the 1936 uprising as the template of the present, tracing Balfour, dispossession, raids, handcuffed kids, and a resistance born in plain sight.
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Collapse
ISRAEL: Using Berlinale’s political crisis as its point of departure, Collapse emerges as an act of moral clarity, documenting not only devastation itself but also the society and ideology producing it.
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If I Must Die
GAZA: Refaat Alareer’s life under siege in Gaza, his viral poem If I Must Die, and a case for words as resistance when the world refuses to listen.
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FIFDH 2026 Impact Lab unveils global lineup
From Gaza’s velodromes to Mexico’s avocado groves, the 2026 Impact Lab at FIFDH’s Industry Days is staking out the frontline of social-justice documentary. Run alongside Geneva’s International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights each March, the #Impact Lab# is not a film market in the usual sense. It is a training and matchmaking hub…
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Habibi Hussein
PALESTINE: From Jenin to future Gaza rebuilds, one cinema’s reopening becomes parable of aid spectacle, cultural erasure, and sidelined local knowledge.