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Reflections from Palestine During Covid-19

Reflections from Palestine during covid-19

Reflections From Palestine is a collection of voices from Palestinian filmmakers on exceptional experiences and a testimony of a particular time that simultaneously speaks to a feeling understood worldwide. The films display personal film languages and reach out to collective stories expressing Palestine's diversity and a broad span of emotions: from boredom to enjoyment, anger, fear, confusion, and complexities of quarantine days.

What started as an intimate journey of observation and reflection is not only a metaphor and snapshot of a time shaped by COVID- 19 but turned out to be an artistic visual representation and interpretation of a further escalation of the political situation in Palestine.

 

“(a) live”

By Annemarie Jacir

"(a) live" is a montage of moments taken from live videos of well-known Palestinian artists in home isolation and their struggle with a changing world, with technology, and with finding ways to connect to others

Between Me and You

By Majdi El-Omari

Between Me and You, like a journey of a day. With the help of others, a filmmaker/teacher gathers the strength and perseverance to rediscover the link he’s lost with the outer world in the effects of quarantine.

MAY

By Maha Haj

Locked down with "Eva" in Nakba Anniversary.

The Echo Chamber

By Mohamed Harb

A surveillance camera in the corner of the room. In one side the camera observes the days of the artists, and in the other side it observes the news of the world through the T.V screen that’s broadcasting the latest news about the Coronavirus crisis.

One Step Backwards.. Two Steps Forward

By Dima Abu Ghoush

Suddenly you discover how wonderful your restricted freedom is, how scary it is that an unknown danger surrounds you, and how fragile and beautiful this life is.

While We Waited For You

By Muayad Alayan

A short diary during the covid-19 lockdown and confinement days in Palestine of the director and his journalist wife as they await the birth of their child.