16th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival
– DISTORToΠia – How do you mirror reality –
BBB FOCUS: Palestine
The screening BBB FOCUS: Palestine is in collaboration with the Athens Palestinian Film Festival and consists of the films from the curated programme called: Palescope: Vital Shorts 3 Future is Present.
‘Future is Present’ traces how the Palestinian future is being built now: in the friction of a checkpoint, the weight of inherited fear, and the visceral reality of war for deaf children. This future is also shaped by the everyday refusals that persist in the face of these pressures: the moments of joy that defy military control, the persistent clarity of childhood, the raw courage to confront horror, and the profound strength to rebuild from immense loss. These works prove that the future is not a vague probability, but a present-day battleground where its machinery clashes with the will to exist, to persist, and to be free.
- An Orange from Jaffa, Mohammed Almughanni, Palestine, Poland, France, Fiction, 2024, 27:00
- Post Trauma, Nidal Badarny, Palestine, Documentary, 2024, 15:00
- Vibrations from Gaza, Rehab Nazzal, Palestine, Italy, France, Documentary, 2023, 16:00
- Upshot, Maha Haj, Palestine, Canada, Fiction, 2024, 34:00