The Second Intifada heralded a particularly fresh, urgent and experimental approach to filmmaking, in tune with the uprisings to which they contributed. Working at a distance from both the main political organizations and, often, the aesthetic insistences of Global Northern art cinema funding, filmmakers took advantage of accessible technologies to forge new notions of freedom. The prolific body of work from this period does not just defiantly catalogue heightened colonial aggressions and appropriations, it does so with a wit and eclecticism of approach that touched diverse audiences at home and internationally.
Featuring works by Ayreen Anastas, Nahed Awwad, Enas I. Al-Muthaffar, Annemarie Jacir, and Larissa Sansour
Curated by Kay Dickinson
Not Just Any Sea (2006)
Arabic with English Subtitles
"Not Just Any Sea!" encapsulates the yearning of Palestinians trapped in the West Bank for beachy shores that they are forbidden from visiting. In a romantic gesture, with waves caressing her feet, filmmaker Nahed Awwad appears to have a poetic longing for her lover. In a three minute monologue, her agony is revealed to be instigated by border entrapment.
About the Filmmaker
Nahed Awwad is a Palestinian independent filmmaker and a film curator; based in Berlin. She has been working in Film and Television since 1997. She participated in several professional training in Canada, Qatar, and Belgium. In 2004 she got her film diploma from the European film college in Denmark.
She released eight documentary films between experimental, short and feature length.
Awwad’s films were screened at various international film festivals, to mention few; HotDocs film festival, Canada 2013, “one world” Human right film festival in Prague, 2013, Vision du Reel Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland in 2005 and 2008 and the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 (Cinema Sud). In 2009 she was granted the International Trailblazer Tribute -Middle East Trailblazer in MIPDOC.
- Year2006
- Runtime3 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- DirectorNahed Awwad
- ScreenwriterNahed Awwad
- ProducerPalestinian Filmmaker's Collective
- CinematographerNahed Awwad
The Second Intifada heralded a particularly fresh, urgent and experimental approach to filmmaking, in tune with the uprisings to which they contributed. Working at a distance from both the main political organizations and, often, the aesthetic insistences of Global Northern art cinema funding, filmmakers took advantage of accessible technologies to forge new notions of freedom. The prolific body of work from this period does not just defiantly catalogue heightened colonial aggressions and appropriations, it does so with a wit and eclecticism of approach that touched diverse audiences at home and internationally.
Featuring works by Ayreen Anastas, Nahed Awwad, Enas I. Al-Muthaffar, Annemarie Jacir, and Larissa Sansour
Curated by Kay Dickinson
Not Just Any Sea (2006)
Arabic with English Subtitles
"Not Just Any Sea!" encapsulates the yearning of Palestinians trapped in the West Bank for beachy shores that they are forbidden from visiting. In a romantic gesture, with waves caressing her feet, filmmaker Nahed Awwad appears to have a poetic longing for her lover. In a three minute monologue, her agony is revealed to be instigated by border entrapment.
About the Filmmaker
Nahed Awwad is a Palestinian independent filmmaker and a film curator; based in Berlin. She has been working in Film and Television since 1997. She participated in several professional training in Canada, Qatar, and Belgium. In 2004 she got her film diploma from the European film college in Denmark.
She released eight documentary films between experimental, short and feature length.
Awwad’s films were screened at various international film festivals, to mention few; HotDocs film festival, Canada 2013, “one world” Human right film festival in Prague, 2013, Vision du Reel Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland in 2005 and 2008 and the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 (Cinema Sud). In 2009 she was granted the International Trailblazer Tribute -Middle East Trailblazer in MIPDOC.
- Year2006
- Runtime3 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- DirectorNahed Awwad
- ScreenwriterNahed Awwad
- ProducerPalestinian Filmmaker's Collective
- CinematographerNahed Awwad