9ÈME ÉDITION DU CONCOURS DE COURTS-MÉTRAGES

2025-05-31T18:00:00Z

Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, 75004 Paris, France

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NAZRA AND AFAC IN THE WAITING ROOM Occupied Palestinian Territories | 2024 | 15min | Fiction In the waiting room of an Israeli hospital, Hussien, a 48-year-old Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, sits next to his 70-year-old recently widowed mother, Rashida. While he works on a university assignment on his laptop, Rashida—out of the house for the first time in three months—gently tries to socialize with those around her, speaking in her limited Hebrew. Director: Moatasem Taha FACES UNDER FIRE Palestine (Gaza) | 2024 | 6min | Documentary This film tells the story of Youssef, a young man in Gaza working as a clown for children in the midst of the ongoing genocide. Youssef tries to bring smiles to children’s faces despite daily struggles to find food and water, living in a tent with constant gunfire all around. After his wife and child are evacuated to Egypt due to the war, Youssef is left to face profound loneliness. He believes he sees his son’s face in the other children he entertains, amplifying his inner sorrow. Director: Rajaa Khaled Ayesh Production: Salah El Haw FI ALWASAT Palestine | 2024 | 16min | Fiction Nour tries to make a kite with a child after taking refuge in his home during a raid by occupation forces on the city. Will she manage to make the kite fly in both timelines, turning the event into a memory anchored in another layer of her past? Director: Mahmoud Hamdan Production: Mahmoud Hamdan MAWTINI Canada | 2023 | 18min | Fiction Nawal, a young Palestinian grieving her grandmother and clinging to a small fig tree—her last living link to Palestine—forms an unlikely friendship with Tanya, an older Indigenous woman who tends a guerrilla garden on their building's lawn. By helping Tanya with the garden and pushing back against property management, Nawal finds a sense of belonging as both women reconnect to home from the margins of society. Director: Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller Production: Kevin Dong & Malachi Ellis ZAHRA Jordan | 2024 | 15min | Fiction Zahra is a desperate garment factory worker, just weeks away from giving birth. She needs a C-section but cannot afford it, and works extra shifts to try to gather the money. Abandoned by an absent husband and facing her supervisor’s indifference, Zahra makes a fateful decision as she seeks a way to cover her operation costs. Director: Hadi Shatat Production: Joseph Shamoun