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Focus Michel Khleifi — The founding voice

The festival opens with Michel Khleifi, a Palestinian filmmaker born in Nazareth, exiled in Belgium, who laid the first stone of Palestinian cinema in the fullest sense. His body of work — from Fertile Memory (1980) to Route 181 (2003) — runs through the festival like a guiding thread. Khleifi will be in Tunis for a public conversation on April 5th, alongside filmmaker Ahmed Mahmoud.

Militant archives

The pioneering films of Mustafa Abu Ali, PLO archives, the Tokyo Reels programme: a dive into the first decades of a cinema born in the camps, with limited means and acute political consciousness. These films are not relics. They are tools.

Gaza — The burning present

Screenings dedicated to the most recent works on Gaza, featuring artists — Basma Alsharif, Larissa Sansour, Mona Hatoum, Jumana Manna — who have turned to experimental form, science fiction and video art to say what classic documentary can no longer say alone

A new generation

Mahdi Fleifel and Ahmed Mahmoud embody a generation that inherits everything — militancy, exile, archives, fiction — and seeks its own language. Their works form the living thread of the programme, the link between memory and the present.


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