Orange from Jaffa

Directed by Mohammed Almughanni, Winner of the LIFF 2024 Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition

Mohammed, a young Palestinian, is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint. The driver, Farouk, discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross the checkpoint. Trouble begins.

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

Directed by Theo Panagopoulos, IDFA Best Short Film Award 2024, Sundance Film Selection

When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender film essay questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and the land.