Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Akram al Ashqar, Nahed Awwad, Liana Bader, Riyad Deis, Rowan al Faqih, Ahmad Habash, Ismael Habbash, Annemarie Jacir, Enas Muthaffar, Razi Najjar, May Odeh, Amer Shomali, Mohanad Yaqubi | 90 minutes

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Palestine, summer 2006

full title: "Palestine, summer 2006: a collection from the palestinian filmmakers' collective"

Various directors 2006 fiction 90 min.

3 Minute Shorts From The Following Directors: Akram al Ashqar, Nahed Awwad, Liana Bader, Riyad Deis, Rowan al Faqih, Ahmad Habash, Ismael Habbash, Annemarie Jacir, Enas Muthaffar, Razi Najjar, May Odeh, Amer Shomali, Mohanad Yaqubi. Founded in late 2005, the Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective is an independent collective founded and run by filmmakers. Its goals include working with the Palestinian community to screen films, share technical and artistic skills, help make Palestinian films and information more widely available, create a Palestinian video library and organize activities and projects to promote Palestinian cinema. In mid 2006 the collective invited established and new Palestinian filmmakers to come together in a project that would reflect the “mood” of that summer. Limited to three minutes or less, the filmmakers were also restricted to using only oneshot to tell their stories.

Films:
Red, dead and mediterranean by Akram al Ashqar
Security leak by Rowan Al Faqih
Checkmate by Amer Shomali
Jenan by Riyad Deis
Flee by Ahmad Habash
Coffee & cigarettes by Ismael Habbash
Sound of the street by Anne Marie Jacir
Football on a thursday afternoon by Liana Bader
Ferkesh (called off) by May Odeh
Traffic by Mohanad Yaqubi
A world apart within 15 minutes by Enas Muthaffar
To the arabs of haifa a special message by Razi Najjar
Not just any sea by Nahed Awwad

Both established and emerging Palestinian filmmakers were invited to come together in a project that would reflect the "mood" of Summer 2006 in Palestine. Using one shot, filmmakers were asked to tell their stories in three minutes or less. Despite the fact that Palestinians have been dispersed across the globe, with the majority of them being refugees, "Summer 2006, Palestine",initiated by the Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective, was limited to filmmakers living in Palestine. The result is a unique collection of short films from across Palestine, delving into the personal, the political, and the poetic - the spirit of a people struggling for freedom.
Written by The Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective

Trailer: https://www.akkafilms.ch/en/1124-2/

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