TPFF Home Grown Shorts

TPFF is proud to present original work by local Palestinian filmmakers. The films were developed, workshopped, filmed and produced through the 2024 TPFF Film Residency, in partnership with Trinity Square Video. After an exciting year-long process, TPF presents the world premieres of these incredible films.

Lyd w/ Palestine Islands

Lyd by Rami Younis & Sarah Ema Friedland, is a speculative documentary that follows the rise and fall of Lyd – a 5,000-year-old metropolis that was once a bustling Palestinian town until it was conquered when the State of Israel was established in 1948 and was renamed Lod. Lyd dares to ask the question: what would the city be like had the Israeli occupation of Lyd never happened?

Thursday September 26

Letter to My Tribe w/ Sultana's Reign

Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? This video essay includes interviews with journalists, activists and a rabbi who addresses BDS, documentations of actions on the ground in the West Bank, along with personal family histories in Iraq and Poland.

Spaces of Exception

Haunted by her mother’s death and recurring attacks by Israeli forces on her city, a young girl becomes obsessed with death. To distract her, her father makes a stop-motion film. However, his attempts fail and the girl finds nothing other than imagination to escape from reality.

From Ground Zero

Launched by Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi, the project's urgent aim is to give a voice to filmmakers in Gaza, so that they can bear witness to the daily life under genocide. A work of memory to fight against oblivion and leave a trace of the ongoing war against the people of Gaza. 

Saturday September 28

R21 aka Restoring Solidarity w/ Shattered Memory

Documenting an overlooked movement of anti-imperialism between Japan and Palestine, the Tokyo Reels are collection of 20 16mm films. Reel no. 21 comes as an addition and a reflection on a collection of 20 films in 16mm format, safeguarded in Tokyo by Japanese solidarity movement with Palestine. 

To My Father

To My Father is Abdel Salam Shehadah's poetic and mesmerizing homage to the studio photographers of the 1950's - 70's. Set partly in a refugee camp in Rafah, this is a remarkable look back at fifty years of Palestinian and Arab history, through photographs, reportage and the voices of photographers. 

Life Is Beautiful w/ Vibrations from Gaza

The young Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly is visiting a film festival in Tromsø in 2014, when the borders to Gaza close. He finds himself stuck in the arctic winter. Little does he know that it will be seven years before he can see his family again.

Thursday September 26

Saturday September 28

Sunday September 29

TPFF 2024 Trailer