Synopsis
While reflecting on the present, a young Palestinian recalls childhood memories of the military invasion and siege of Bethlehem. By trying to understand how his parents led him though those difficult times.
Festivals
AWARD
Best Short Film Award - Eastern Vista - Fajr International Film Festival, Iran, 2021
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
VSI Ireland, Belgium, 2024
VSI Ireland, Netherlands, 2024
Films of Resistance, Netherlands, 2024
Concorto Film Festival On Tour, Italy, 2024
SÉLECTIONS
Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, 2020 (World Premiere)
Medfilm Festival, Italy, 2020
Palestinian Film Festival, Romania, 2020
Palestine - Filmer c'est exister, France, 2020
Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2021
Nazra Palestine short Film Festival, Venice, Italy, 2021
Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2021
Fajr International Film Festival, Iran, 2021
Les Percéides, Canada, 2021
Jayu, Canada, 2021
Courts d'un soir, Canada, 2021
Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Canada, 2021
Twin Cities Arab film Festival, USA, 2021
Boston Palestine Film Festival, USA, 2021
Sapporo Short Fest, Japon, 2021
London Palestine Film Festival, UK, 2021
Belfast Film Festival, Ireland, 2021
Cinema on the Bayou, USA, 2022
Palestine Cinema Days, Palestine, 2022
Al Ard Film Festival, Italy, 2022
Waking Life Festival, Portugal, 2022
Marrakech Short Film Festival, Morocco, 2022
Cinema of Peace?, Tunisia, 2022
Gesellschaft Schweiz Palästina, Germany, 2023
Ciné-Palestine, France, 2023
Cisterna Film Festival, Italy, 2023
Cabriolet Film Festival, Lebanon, 2023
Palestine Arts Film Festival, Switzerland, 2023
Palestine Film Festival, Australia, 2024
Leuven Short Film Festival, Belgium, 2024
Director: Ibrahim Handal
Cast: Hind Abushkaidem- Yousef Abushakaidem- Muhammad Mughrabi-Karam al-Salaymeh
Script: Ibrahim Handal
DOP: Ibrahim Handal
Editing: Ibrahim Handal | Bilal Abu Alia
Sound: Saliba Rishmawi
Production: Ibrahim Handal, Wisam Aljafari
Version
Original: Arabic, English
Subtitles: French, English
Format
16:9/Stereo
DCP/AppleProRes/H264
Ibrahim Handal is a cinematographer and filmmaker whom graduated in Cinematography in 2019 from Dar Al-Kalima University. He worked as a director of photography on several short films: Bethlehem 2001 (2020, Officially selected in Locarno, Clermont Ferrand, Busan and many others) AMBIENCE by Wissam Al Jafari (2019, Cannes Cinéfondation winner), SAWSAN (2019), BETWEEN YOU AND ME (2020). He directed three short films: COLD (2017, 5 ', experimental), HIM AND I (2019, 13', fiction) and BETHLEHEM 2001 (2020).He also worked on several feature film productions in Palestine in the camera and lighting departments. Ibrahim is in development of his first feature film.
