XIX edition
2023
candidate
films
Section: Documentary Feature Films
Behind the Fence
by Tamara Abu Laban | Palestine | 2021 | 57’
Eulogy for the Dead Sea
by Polina Teif | Canada | 2022 | 81’
The War to Come
by Marco Pasquini | Italy | 2021 | 80’
Not Just Your Picture -The Story of the Kilani Family
by Anne Paq, Dror Dayan | Germany/Qatar | 2019 | 80’
Ethbet!
by Matteo Ferrarini | Italy/France/Belgium | 2021 | 73’
Telling my Son’s Land
by Ilaria Jovine, Roberto Mariotti | Italy | 2021 | 84’
Toxic Hope
by Salim Saab | Lebanon | 2022 | 41’
Women Hold Up Half the Sky – Tunisia
by Mariam Shahin, George Azar | Jordan/Tunisia/Lebanon | 2022 | 71’
Waiting for Faraj Allah
by Nidal Badarny | Palestine | 2020 | 56’
Erasmus in Gaza
by Chiara Avesani, Matteo Delbò | Italy/Spain | 2021 | 90’
Section: Documentary Short Films
3 Logical Exits
by Mahdi Fleifel | Denmark/UK/Lebanon | 2020 | 15
The Silent Protest: 1929 Jerusalem
by Mahasen Nasser-Eldin | Palestine | 2019 | 20’
The People’s Patriarch
by Mohammed Alatar | Palestine | 2021 | 27’
4000 Voices
by Sajjad Kwaish | Iraq | 2020 | 23’
Last May in Palestine
by Rabeea Eid | UK/Palestine | 2022 | 20’
Camp Stories
by Wafiq Abdulghani | Lebanon | 2022 | 14’
Sulla Loro Pelle
by Marika Ikonomu, Alessandro Leone, Simone Manda | Italy | 2022 | 20’
Al Quds Ramadan Cannon – The Story Behind
by Sahera Dirbas | Palestine | 2022 | 26’
The Gaza Monologues. Ten Years and the Dream Continues…
by Iman Aoun, Yousef Nateel | Palestine | 2021 | 20’
Search
by Alaa Dayeh | Palestine | 2022 | 16’
Memories of Al Yarmook
by Sophie Welsh | Netherlands/Germany | 2022 | 15’
Section: Fiction Films
Warsha
by Dania Bdeir | France/Lebanon | 2022 | 16’
Cigarette
by Lama Naamneh | Palestine | 2021 | 30’
The Pandemic
by Kassem Istanbouli | Lebanon | 2021 | 11’
Palestine 87
by Bilal Alkhatib | Palestine | 2022 | 14’
Siri Miri
by Luay Awwad | Palestine | 2021 | 5’
I Never Survived
by Joud Qablawi | Jordan | 2021 | 4’
Bantustan
by Mohammad Mansour | Palestine | 2021 | 8’
Yalla
by Carlo D’Ursi | Spain | 2020 | 9’
By the Sea
by Wisam Al Jafari | Palestine | 2019 | 12’
Head Count
by Akram al-Waara | Palestine | 2023 | 14’
collateral
events
Sa Terra: Showcase of Sardinian Films
Film: Bentu (out of competition)
by Salvatore Mereu | Italy | 2022 | 70’
Film: Fango Rosso (out of competition)
by Alberto Diana | Italy | 2019| 55’
Film: The Wash (out of competition)
by Tomaso Mannoni | Italy | 2018 | 21’
Live Concert: Status Quo
by Jowan Safadi
ju
ry
Monica Maurer (President of the Jury)
Film director and writer
Filippo Kalomenidis
Writer and screenwriter
Franca Gabriella Piras
Former Professor of Modern Literature
Antonello Zanda
Writer, Director of Cineteca Sarda Società Umanitaria
Wasim Dahmash
Professor of Arabic and Arab Literature
Ibrahim Nasrallah
Palestinian Poet and Writer
Patrizia Manduchi
Professor of History of Islamic Countries, University of Cagliari
Andrea Mura
Filmmaker and screenwriter
Almohannad Alkhaltoum
Filmmaker and screenwriter
May Odeh
Filmmaker and producer
Awa
rds
– Best documentary of the Festival (awarded by the Jury):
Not Just Your Picture -The Story of the Kilani Family
by Anne Paq, Dror Dayan | Germany/Qatar | 2019 | 80’
– Palestine Award (best documentary on Palestine, awarded by the Jury):
Erasmus in Gaza
by Chiara Avesani, Matteo Delbò | Italy/Spain | 2021 | 90’
– Emerging Director Award (awarded by the Jury):
Last May in Palestine
by Rabeea Eid | UK/Palestine | 2022 | 20’
– Best Documentary Short Feature (awarded by the Jury):
4000 Voices
by Sajjad Kwaish | Iraq | 2020 | 23’
– Sardegna Palestina Award (awarded by the Selection Board):
Sulla Loro Pelle
by Marika Ikonomu, Alessandro Leone, Simone Manda | Italy | 2022 | 20’
– Best Fiction Film (awarded by the Selection Board):
Yalla
by Carlo D’Ursi | Spain | 2020 | 9’
– Audience Award:
Sulla Loro Pelle
by Marika Ikonomu, Alessandro Leone, Simone Manda | Italy | 2022 | 20’
– Special Mentions of the Jury:
Waiting for Faraj Allah
by Nidal Badarny | Palestine | 2020 | 56’
Telling my Son’s Land
by Ilaria Jovine, Roberto Mariotti | Italy | 2021 | 84’
Eulogy for the Dead Sea
by Polina Teif | Canada | 2022 | 81’
Pict
ures
Loca
tion
Teatro Massimo
Via De Magistris – CAGLIARI
Partner
ship
