{"id":196843,"date":"2025-06-19T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196843\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:01:15","slug":"palestine-film-institute-heads-to-sheffield-docfest-with-feature-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196843\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine Film Institute Heads To Sheffield DocFest With Feature Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>The Palestine Film Institute<\/a> will screen three work-in-progress docs, including the latest feature from artist Amer Shomali<\/a>, at this year\u2019s Sheffield DocFest<\/a>. Check out a teaser trailer for the projects above.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe showcase, organized in partnership with Sheffield DocFest, the British Council, and Switzerland\u2019s AKKA Films, will take place on June 21 at the Montgomery Theatre in Sheffield and will be open only to DocFest delegates.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe three projects are:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTheft of Fire\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tdir. Amer Shomali, prod. Rashid Abdelhamid, Ina Fichman, Remi Grellety\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCanada\/France\/Palestine\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSynopsis: Theft of Fire is a genre-defying documentary about an art heist that never happened. A Palestinian archeologist and ex-Prisoner hatch a plan to steal back priceless antiquities.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite Resistance: Letters to the Living\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tdir. Mahmoud Atassi, prod. Abdulrahman Alkilany\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tQatar\/Turkey\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSynopsis: Using hours of haunting footage from inside Gaza\u2019s Kamal Edwan hospital, a Palestinian lawyer battles to free hospital director Hussam AbuSafiya from Israeli detention.<\/p>\n

\n\tReclaiming Time\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tdir. \/ prod. Fuad Hindieh Palestine\/France\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSynopsis: When a Palestinian filmmaker tries to legally change his birthdate, his absurd bureaucratic quest becomes a visually stunning heist to reclaim time stolen by occupation.<\/p>\n

\n\tAway from the showcase, Sheffield Docfest has also announced a series of Palestinian and Palestine-related projects that will be featured throughout it\u2019s 2025 lineup. Check out a list of those projects below. Sheffield Docfest runs from June 18 to June 23.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf I Don\u2019t Steal It\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tDir. Muna Alkurd, prods. Mike Lerner (Roast Beef Productions), Rula Nasser (The<\/p>\n

\n\tImaginarium Films)<\/p>\n

\n\tPalestine\/Jordan\/United Kingdom<\/p>\n

\t\tGaza Sunbirds<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDir. Flavia Cappellini, prods. Kristian Van der Heyden (Harald House), Ana Gonzalez (Eye Rise<\/p>\n

\n\tFilms), Alex King (Huck), Andrea Kurland (Huck)<\/p>\n

\n\tBelgium\/Spain\/United Kingdom<\/p>\n

\t\tIn the Presence of Absence<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDir. Mona El-Naggar, Cora Engelbrecht, prod. Neil Collier (Fireside Studios), Leila Abu-saada (Fireside Studios)<\/p>\n

\n\tUSA<\/p>\n

\t\tAnatomy of a Genocide<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDir. Torstein Grude, prod. Torstein Grude (Jordskjelv AS), Torstein Parelius (Jordskjelv AS) Norway\/Croatia\/Sweden \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tUK Premiere: <\/strong>A State of Passion\u00a0<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDirs.\/prods. Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi<\/p>\n

\n\tLebanon\/Jordan\/United Kingdom\/Palestine\/Kuwait, 2024<\/p>\n

\n\tA powerful account of a British-Palestinian surgeon who has become a vital witness to the devastation wreaked by Israel\u2019s bombing of Gaza.<\/p>\n

\n\tUK Premiere: Coexistance, My Ass! <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDir. Amber Fares, prod. Amber Fares, Rachel Leah Jones<\/p>\n

\n\tUSA\/France, 2025<\/p>\n

\n\tComedian Noam Shuster Eliassi turns satire into resistance, employing humour to expose hard truths about the relationship between Israel and Palestine \u2013 where coexistence feels like a bad joke.<\/p>\n

\n\tWorld Premiere: Gaza Sound Man<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tDir. Hosam Abu Dan, prod. Shada Salhab\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tQatar\/Palestine, 2025\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThrough a series of immersive soundscapes, Mohammad Yaghi captures the realities of life on the ground in Palestine before and after 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The Palestine Film Institute will screen three work-in-progress docs, including the latest feature from artist Amer Shomali,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[79902,748,393,4884,79903,1620,31670,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-196843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-amer-shomali","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-palestine-film-institute","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-sheffield-docfest","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114709455674600698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}