Short Films Competition
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Israeli Shorts: Documentary
Einat Weizman; Israel, 2020, 12 min
The film presents the continous struggle of a small village to protect its lands against powerful colonial forces.
The inhabitants of Al-Araqib sit on the lands that were purchased by their ancestors in the northern Naqab. Despite that, the State of Israel defines them as invaders and wages a decades long war of attrition against the villagers, in the attempt to expel them as part of the process of Judaisation and forestation of the Naqab.
The film is part of an ongoing artistic collaboration between Aziz A-Turi from Al-Araqib, and Einat Weizman. The film was first presented in the exibition "Dissensus" at Tel Aviv Museum.
Israeli Shorts: Documentary
Ruqayah Abu al-Qian & Ayshah Abu al-Qian; Israel, 2022, 11:30 min
Ruqaya and Ayshah document their lives and forced expulsion from their home in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran. Their cameras capture their daily lives in a village with no connection to water and electricity supply.