Name: A STATE OF PASSION
Start: 2026-04-09T18:15:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-09T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Le Star

La culture, les gens, les lieux, les débats, les conférences et plus encore pour rencontrer la Palestine et les Palestiniens.
Cet agenda est CULTUREL. Il n'annonce pas les manifs, meetings et autres rassemblements.
Clic sur évènement => détails !

La Palestine à l'Affiche

Award-winning children’s animation about the Palestinian-American experience in K-12 schools. 

* This video is copyrighted by (c) 2023 Rifk Books. Do not copy or reproduce this video without prior written permission. Any reproduction or illegal distribution of the content in any form will result in immediate action against the person concerned. *

Synopsis: As Saamidah, a young Palestinian-American girl, anxiously starts her first day of school, she finds her identity in question when faced with a world map that doesn't include her homeland.  

2024 Festivals: 

Māoriland Film Festival
San Diego Arab Film Festival 
My HERO International Film Festival: Honorable Mention

2023 Film Festivals:

World Premiere: RiverRun International Film Festival 
Chicago Palestine Film Festival - Closing night short
Inca Imperial International Film Festival
Arab Film Festival @ Arab American National Museum
Leeds Palestinian Film Festival 
San Diego International Film Festival 
Spark Micro-Short Film Festival 
Muslim Film Festival 
Huntington Beach Cultural Film Festival 
Eastern Nigeria International Film Festival 
Palestinian Refugees Film Festival 
Portland Film Festival: Will Vinton Award 
Syria Film Festival - Toronto


CAST & CREW:
Directed by: Iman Zawahry
Produced by: Rifk Ebeid 
Animated by: Lamaa Jawhari 
Additional animation by: Fadia Jaradat 
Music composition by: Abed Hathot, Akram Haddad
Songs by: El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe 
Edited by: Grace Ibrahim
Trailer edited by: Maximillian Layland 
Sound Design by: Barbaros Kaynak
Written by: Rifk Ebeid, Iman Zawahry
Story Consultation: Paul Seetachitt 
Starring: Jannah Ebeid (Saamidah), Aizzah Fatima (Teacher), Waseem Alzer (Baba) 
Portuguese subtitles: Juliana Souza 
Spanish subtitles: Ashley Cisneros 
French subtitles: Kunle Fasasi 
Arabic subtitles: Yahya Dajani 

Based off the book: Baba What Does My Name Mean? A Journey to Palestine, Written by Rifk Ebeid, Illustrated by Lamaa Jawhari. Available online everywhere books are sold. For more info: www.rifkbooks.com 

Inquiries: info (at) rifkbooks (dot) com
Instagram: @iamfrompalestine.animation

Para la versión en Español, doblada por el Comunidad Palestina de Sevilla, haga clic aquí: https://youtu.be/Z10ocyChYTA?si=TFYZCGLsQTQ9dVL0

Lyrics to “Take me to Palestine” song during Palestine scenes: 

خذني عفلسطين خذني
يا طير لا تواخذني
رجعني على بلادي عند أهلي وولادي

بلادي يا أم النضال يلي انجبتي ابطال
خذني ع ارض المحتل على السهل وعلى التل
والأرض تنده وتقول خذني عفلسطين خذني

Take me to Palestine, 
O bird, please
Return me to my country, to my family and children

My country, the mother of struggle, the one that gave birth to heroes
Take me to the occupied land, to the plain and the hill
And the land calls out and says, “Take me to Palestine, take me.”

I Am From Palestine | Award-Winning Short Animation (full) | Rifk Books

This is the story of an extraordinary man, surgeon, and human, who unwaveringly puts his life on the line to save lives. After 43 days of horror, working round the clock and under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance, hailed as a hero everywhere he goes.

Normally Ghassan lives a comfortable life in London, with a Harley Street clinic and research affiliations at top universities. Yet, with each outbreak of war against his homeland in Gaza, he drops everything and rushes to where he is needed. With the full support of his wife Dima, and his three sons, he has already participated as an emergency surgeon during five Israeli wars against Gaza, as well as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

The film follows him to Amman from the moment he emerged shell-shocked from Gaza, and then to Beirut, London, and Kuwait as he speaks and lobbies for an end to the genocide and for the reconstruction of the health system. This film delves into what makes Ghassan who he is, capturing the essence of the man who is greeted and feted everywhere he goes. Through his eyes, we witness the tragic story of Gaza’s most recent genocide and the notions of being Palestinian and of heroism are questioned. Ghassan, who rejects the label, sees his actions as nothing more nor less than a response to his passion for his country and Justice.

TRAILER A  State of Passion

Le Star

Festival qui programme tous les deux ans des films Palestiniens récents.
Et au fil des sorties des "Entre Deux"

Apirila 2026

A STATE OF PASSION

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I AM FROM PALESTINE

A STATE OF PASSION

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