How do you represent that which has been drained of meaning, misrepresented to the point of oversaturation, yet underappreciated and neglected to the point of absurdity? Time stretches eternally, oppressing your daily life to the smallest and largest degree, in humiliating detail, regular check points, opening boxes, behavior engulfed by silence. Masharawi succeeds brilliantly in silently depicting the daily abuses of life under occupation, the regulation and control superimposed, and the suffocating repression enacted and enforced by the Israeli military presence in Palestine. (Jayce Salloum, fragment)

A young girl attempts to work with a group of children who sell chewing gum to make a film about their lives. The film ends up chronicling her relationship with them, and their relationships with each other and society.

Liana Badr's documentary locates itself at the checkpoints and Wall crossings within the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Here, the control of walls, gates, and roads is always political, and seemingly simple structures serve not as means of passage but more often as obstacles to the crops, families, schools, and livelihoods of those who must endure their presence.

“On december 19th 2008, the Free Gaza movement sailed from Cyprus to Palestine. Our objective was to break the Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip. We were the last and only foreigners to enter and stay in the territory. We got involved in something that nobody expected”.

Imad and Ahmed are two teenagers living in Nablus (West Bank) and working in the city market to contribute to the household economy. Imad wants to be a lawyer and Ahmed wants to join the Palestinian resistance.