Six gripping narrative shorts that center on the universal themes of life: love, loss, trust, struggle, addiction, family, artistic expression, and childhood. All of these films are directed by or feature Palestinians.&nbsp;

Wall Piano takes us into a daydream of a young girl who lives under the shadow of a separation wall. Part music video, part magic realism, Wall Piano shows a wall as something other than an immovable barrier. The inspiration for this short film came from 12 year-old ‘Nada’, featured in the film.

Wall Piano

'Wall Piano' takes us into a daydream of a young girl who lives under the shadow of a separation wall.

A young Palestinian man is interrogated for crossing the border and suspected of being a terrorist, while his true intentions stay hidden.

Blacklisted

A young Palestinian man is interrogated for crossing the border and suspected of being a terrorist, while his true intentions stay hidden.

Set in a dystopian doll house, Jameela wants nothing more than to fit in with the girls in the house. As she doesn’t look like all of the carbon-copied girls, she is rejected by them. She then meets odd Yasmine and ultimately, must choose between true friendship and being outcast, or fake friendships and fitting in.

Beit Byoot

Set in a dystopian doll house, Jameela wants nothing more than to fit in with the other girls in the house.

Zaid, a young Arab-American amateur drag queen, has to confront his conservative father and grandfather with Alzheimers, about his identity.

Mariam

Zaid, a young Arab-American amateur drag queen, has to confront his conservative father and grandfather with Alzheimers, about his identity.

Yasmine, an openly lesbian Palestinian nurse living in Tel Aviv, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their relationship. Their liaison is further strained by the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict and by Yasmine’s sister’s visit who arrives from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister’s house.

Polygraph

Yasmine, an openly lesbian Palestinian nurse living in Tel Aviv, finds out that her lover has been reporting on their relationship.

On the day of her release from a psychiatric facility in the aftermath of an accidental overdose, Mira returns to her mother’s home in Brooklyn to attend her grandmother’s birthday only to discover that her sister has told the family that she was on a trip to Florida. Tallahassee is the portrayal of a young woman’s re-entry into the world, a meditation on the enormous task of life after grief. Framed in the context of diaspora, this film grants a glimpse into the struggles of mental illness, an issue often silenced and pathologized in Arab culture.

Tallahassee

A portrayal of a young woman’s re-entry into the world, a meditation on the enormous task of life after grief.

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