Hamza is a middle-aged man who refuses to abandon a routine he has kept since his release from Israeli jail; every day, he goes into the woods to hunt a lion that the locals don’t believe exists.

When a filmmaker of Palestinian descent based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, 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.

Julie and Waleed, two kids on the cusp of their teenage years, escape the pressures of societal and political noise in Palestine, embarking on a brief adventure in nature that will linger in their memories like a dream.

Francisca Khamis Giacoman revisits the remnants of her family home in Al-Makhrour in Palestine which is inaccessible to her family. Khamis Giacoman interweaves fact, fiction, histories and memories to reconstruct the house that lives on as a ghost in her family’s oral tradition. How are spaces that we cannot reach represented? And is there something in not knowing that opens a space to new possibilities?

Hussien — a 30-year-old Palestinian-Arab with Israeli citizenship whose family was displaced in 1948 — escorts his freshly bereaved 70-year-old mother Rashida to her medical appointment in an Israeli hospital waiting area. While Hussien works on an assignment on his laptop, Rashida — who hasn’t left her house in three months — tries to socialize with others in her limited Hebrew.

A hypnotic fusion of dance, archival footage, and internet-circulated videos that collapse past and present into a visceral portrait of Palestinian life. Opening with The Lovers Songs Band and excerpts from Jenin, Jenin (2003), the film assembles fleeting yet powerful images: flag-waving horseback riders, families at the beach, teenagers dancing in flames, and acts of resistance against occupation. Dawud’s deadpan narration— “I witness you witness me, we are martyrs together”—pulls the viewer into a shared act of witnessing. Through rhythmic disorder and movement, the film captures the resilience, rebellion, and everyday joys of Palestinian existence, focusing particularly on youth and women in their defiant assertion of life. The film was commissioned by Onty and OnMyComputer for the CoreCore symposium which took place in New York, November 2023.

A 20-minute experimental documentary, blending color and black-and-white, that reflects on love and longing—love for one’s family and longing for one’s home. Through the lens of overcoming the trauma of losing a family home and the experience of forced migration, it transforms lifelong regrets into a healing journey of creative catharsis and witness.