A Trace of Palestine

Curated by Nahed Awwad

In collaboration with Pascale Fakhry (ALFILM) and POC Art Collective

Naim and Wadee’a (نعيم ووديعة)
Najwa Najjar , Palestine 1999, 20 min. Arabic with English subtitles

The Seven Villages
Farah Abou Kharroub, Czech Republic, Lebanon 2020, 17 min. Arabic with English subtitles

El Halabiyeh (الحلبية)
Rana Abushkaidem, Palestine 2021, 20 min. Arabic with English subtitles

Your father was born 100 years old so was the Nakba
Razan Alsalah, Palestine, Lebanon 2008, 7 min. Arabic with English subtitles

Followed by a storytelling session

This film program focuses on the Nakba (the disaster), the forced displacement of Palestinians in 1948, highlighting their exodus and exile from various perspectives and generations. Naim and Wadee’a explores Jaffa’s social life before 1948 through a miniature portrait of a Palestinian couple. The Seven Villages is a video call between the filmmaker in Prague and her grandmother in Lebanon. In El Halabiyeh, a grandmother from Aleppo shares memories with her Palestinian granddaughter. In Your father was born 100 years old so was the Nakba, a grandmother revisits her hometown Haifa via Google Street View. After the films, Palestinian community members in Berlin, some here since the 1970s, will share stories about preserving their history and dealing with trauma while living in exile, especially today and here in Germany, moderated by Nahed Awwad and Pascal Fakhry. (NA)

Nahed Awwad is a Berlin-based Palestinian film director and curator. She has been working in film and television since 1997. In 2020, Awwad co-founded the POC Art Collective in Berlin.

Pascale Fakhry is the executive director of ALFILM – Arab Film Festival Berlin. In 2015 she led Metropolis Cinema’s Cinema on the Road project in Beirut and was the Project Manager Cinema of Commoning in 2024.