THE UNTOLD INTIFADA 1958 (MAY OF THE COVENANT)

2025, dir. Ward Jaraisi
Palestine; 55 min.
In Arabic with English subtitles

This film chronicles the first mass Palestinian uprising after the Nakba within the 1948 borders, which took place in the city of Nazareth in May 1958. Despite its central importance and being a pivotal moment in the history of Palestinians in Israel, this uprising has remained erased from official Palestinian narratives, inadequately documented and rarely discussed in depth. Through interviews with ten Palestinian individuals who actively participated in the protest, the film reconstructs the events of that moment when Palestinians in Israel took to the streets after ten years of enforced silence under Israeli military rule.

Preceded by the short films:

KEEP LAUGHING

2025, dir. Hamza Amro, 3 min.

This short follows Moussa Nazzal, a Palestinian actor and hospital clown who wields humor as radical resistance and fragile refuge, revealing the thin line between joy and heartbreak in a life lived under strain.

IN HER ARMS

2025, dir. Asil Majed Alwadiya, 5 min.

IN HER ARMS follows Bisan’s mother after her newborn was taken from their home without her knowing — no final kiss, no goodbye — and sent to grow up in another country, far from her arms.

10 MINUTES YOUNGER

2024, dir. Nisreen Yaseen, 10 min.

Julie and Waleed, two kids on the cusp of their teenage years, escape the pressures of societal and political noise in Palestine, embarking on a brief adventure in nature that will linger in their memories like a dream.

LIVING DESPITE THEM

2025, dirs. Alaa Hathleen and Antonia Colodro, 18 min.

This intimate portrait follows Alaa Hathleen, a young Palestinian soccer player and physical therapist from the Bedouin community of Umm Al Kheir in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank. Told entirely through cellphone footage shot by Alaa and his relatives, the film offers a first-person account of daily life under occupation.

SEVERED

2025, dir. Jen Marlowe, 28 min.

Mohamad Saleh, a teenager from Gaza, has endured five major Israeli assaults, losing his home, family, friends, and even his leg. His story reflects the broader reality of thousands of other Palestinians whose disabilities are the direct result of Israel’s systematic violations of international law, and makes connections between Palestinian rights and disability justice.