Palestinian Shorts Programme

As part of our Qatar-MENASA Year of Culture 2022 celebrations, we are delighted to present a compelling selection of short narratives and documentaries that centre on the nation of Palestine and its people.

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Screening on 7 Dec | An insightful short about two Palestinian ex-pats' connection to their homeland, and the ways they try to stay close to their identity, history and culture.

An insightful short about two Palestinian ex-pats' connection to their homeland, and the ways they try to stay close to their identity, history and culture.

Credits

Director

Maha Essid

Producer

Wijdan Al-Khateeb

Cast

Sameera AlHaj Abed
Mohammad Hawwash

About the Director

Maha Essid

Maha Essid is a Tunisian Doha-based filmmaker who’s an international senior majoring in Media Industries and Technologies at Northwestern University in Qatar. She has worked on numerous film projects in Doha, Tunisia, and Chicago, with Studio 20Q, The Film House and independently. She directed her first fiction ‘426’ in 2017, and her first documentary ‘Refuge’ in 2018, as part of a documentary cla

Doha film institute

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