Part of Media City Film Festival 2024

Basma Alsharif, Palestine/Germany, digital, 11.5 min, 2014

O, Persecuted turns the act of restoring Kassem Hawal’s militant Palestinian film Our Small Houses (1974) into a performance possible only through film. One that involves speed, bodies, and the movement of the past into a future that collides ideology with escapism.

Alsharif diagnoses a troubling uncertainty and disengagement in youth which slingshots from the past to the present day.—James Hansen

Streaming Details: This film is available to stream globally.

Program Partners: This film is co-presented with Artcite Inc.