Film series “Animated Palestine”

Amid the current devastation in Gaza, programming it becomes a gesture of cultural urgency: animation as a living archive, as intimate resistance, as a space where a community can recognise itself and continue telling its story.

Each work invites us to look beyond the headline and listen to what remains: everyday life, bonds, mourning and creativity that persist despite violence. The series combines diverse techniques—from handmade drawing to stop-motion and hybrid animation—to offer perspectives that broaden our framework of understanding.

The programme includes “Samouni Road” by Stefano Savona, presented in two sessions (22 and 25 November), a work that reconstructs, between documentary and animation, the story of a family marked by loss. The series culminates on 28 November with The Wanted 18, by Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali, which revisits with irony and clarity a real episode of self-management in the West Bank. Added to all this is an anthology of short films that opens the programme with a plural and sensitive perspective.

Animated Palestine does not seek to tell everything, but to let these images breathe and find viewers willing to listen.