Amid the ongoing struggle to preserve Palestinian narratives, this showcase emphasizes the importance of supporting Palestinian cinema on international platforms. Through the Palestine Showcase, four feature documentaries in development provide filmmakers and producers with a unique opportunity to share their work with decision-makers and festival programmers in the film industry, creating a space for them to engage with the global film community, and amplifying Palestinian voices. Find out more about the 2025 Palestinian Showcase projects:

Jana by Moaz Hosni
Producer: Awni Farhat
Country: Palestine
Amid the ruins of Gaza, a fourteen-year-old girl longs for safety, but as hope nears, she’s pulled back into the relentless cycle of violence—her childhood, and her life, extinguished.

A Childhood by Scandar Copti
Producers: Jiries Copti, Tony Copti
Countries: Palestine, France, Denmark
Blending animation, raw footage, and testimonies, A Childhood reveals the emotional and psychological toll of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian children, centering their stolen innocence, fractured memories, and enduring humanity.

If These Stones Could Talk by Hana Elias
Producers: Asmahan Bkerat and Anakha Arikara
Countries: USA, Palestine
Driven by an ancestral pull, Nassib returns to his Palestinian hometown of Shefa-Amr after decades in the US. He and his family cultivate a neglected garden, maintaining their ancestral agrarian practices and identity in the face of ongoing erasure.

Untitled Doctor by Poh Si Teng
Producers: Poh Si Teng, Kirstine Barfod, Reem Haddad
Country: USA, Palestine, Malaysia, Denmark
When three American doctors—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

Moderator: Dorota Lech