Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Apply to the competitive “Nazra” Film Festival, which focuses on short films about Palestinian content—whether created by Palestinian filmmakers or by non-Palestinian directors whose work addresses Palestine. The main goal of the festival is to present diverse and multifaceted perspectives on the Palestinian reality and its key issues. The festival is traveling rather than hosted in a single city, taking place through tours across several cities in Italy and other locations.
Competition Categories:
Short Narrative Films
Short Documentary Films
Experimental Works (Animation / Music Video / Video Art / Short Films / Others)
Nazra on Gaza (Films produced after October 2023 documenting the genocide in the Gaza Strip and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank)
Benefits
- Promote dialogue and awareness of the Palestinian cause through narrative cinema.
- Support the distribution and promotion of Palestinian filmmakers’ works and provide them with a platform to showcase their films.
- Preserve cultural memory and the human stories of the Palestinian people by archiving and safeguarding short films.
- Serve as a tool of cultural resistance, challenging simplified or dominant media narratives.
Eligibility criteria
- The film must be a recent production (between 2020–2026).
- The film must not exceed 30 minutes in length.
- The film’s content must be related to Palestine, whether politically, historically, socially, or culturally.
- Films must include English subtitles.