They Did Not Recognise Me in the Shadows

A Silent Protest - Jerusalem 1929
Mahasen Nasser-Eldin, Palestine, 2019, 20 min. Arabic with English Subtitles

A Stone’s Throw
Razan AlSalah, Canada, Lebanon, Palestine, 2023, 40 min. Arabic with English Subtitles 

A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade)
Jumana Manna, Norway, Palestine 2013, 12 min. Arabic with English Subtitles

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Theo Panagopoulos, United Kingdom, 2024, 17 min. Arabic with English Subtitles

What does it mean to see Palestine prior to the Nakba of 1948 through archives which were assembled, concealed or misinterpreted under colonialism? Four Palestinian filmmakers look at lost lands, ancestral ghosts and acts of anti-colonial resistance. History becomes tangible as a loop of oppression and liberation. Archival images, silent protests, exile and memories evolve into instances of resistance, hope and impermanence. Liberation and remembrance, in which past and present erupt – into new perspectives. (IF)