Short film screening - Program of four fresh short films

2026-05-31T15:00:00Z - 2026-05-31T16:15:00Z

Le Polygone étoilé, 1 Rue François Massabo, 13002 Marseille, France

This short film program traces a journey of resistance through exile, memory, and counter-narratives, using forms that reflect the diversity of contemporary Palestinian creation. With the documentary “Intersecting Memory” and the animated film “Where the Jasmine Always Blooms,” filmmakers Shayma’ Awawdeh and Husein Bastouni seek to process and preserve memories of the political events that have shaped their lives. In “Morgenkreis,” Basma al-Sharif follows the daily rituals of a father and son in exile in Germany, revealing how violence and loss are woven into the fabric of their daily lives. Finally, Theo Panagopoulos’s “A Land With A People” takes shape through the collective reappropriation of colonial archival images to affirm the Palestinians’ deep roots in their land—yesterday, today, and forever. INTERSECTING MEMORY Palestine, France | 2025 | 21 min | Documentary During the Second Intifada in occupied Palestine, fear, siege, and death define the reality of the city of Hebron. Moments from the past are revived through childhood memory, intersecting with the collective memory. Amid the continuity and repetition of it all, what do we remember? What do we forget? Director: Shayma’ Awawdeh Production: Le GREC WHERE THE JASMINE ALWAYS BLOOMS Germany | 2024 | 10 min | Animation A child left his home, but left his heart there. A place where there was a lot of love, life, history, diversity, dreams and future. A place that was connected with destinies and the destinies with the place. These are now uncertain, some still hover there. Using 3D graphics software, Husein Bastouni reconstructs from his personal memories the situation in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the south of Damascus when the area found itself between the frontlines in the Syrian war. Directing & Production: Husein Bastouni MORGENKREIS Canada, UAE | 2025 | 20 min | Hybrid documentary A short visceral narrative film unfolds in three parts to describe loss. From our earliest experience of separation to the imperceptible violence associated with integrating to a new country when yours is no longer livable, "Morgenkreis" follows a father and son in their intimate rituals as they prepare to start the day and head to kindergarten. Director: Basma al-Sharif Production: The Vega Foundation, The Sharjah Art Foundation A LAND WITH A PEOPLE: A PALESTINIAN COUNTERNARRATIVE UK, Greece | 2024 | 14 min | Documentary A participatory film developed with the Palestinian diaspora in Athens, Greece during the "Performing Diasporic Archival Counternarrartives" workshop. It reclaims recently unearthed 1935 film archive "Tiberias 1935" from the National Library of Scotland, collaboratively reanimating Palestinian presence in historical landscapes from which they have been erased. Director: Theo Panagopoulos Production: University of the West of Scotland, Dounias, Noucmas 🎟️ Pay-what-you-can admission