Passing Dreams

Sami, a young 12 years old boy, takes us on an adventure that spans an entire day and night in the company of his uncle, and the uncle’s daughter, who is two years older than him, in search of a missing bird: a homing pigeon that Sami believes has flown back to its home of origin.

Our journey begins in a refugee camp in the West Bank, where Sami lives with his mother, before traveling to Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and finally arriving at Haifa. During this journey, we witness the absurdity and cruelty of the reality in which Sami lives by diving into the little details of the daily life of modern Palestinians.

Rashid Masharawi

Rashid Masharawi is a self-taught filmmaker born and raised in Shati refugee camp, Gaza Strip.

He is one of the first Palestinian director who had shoot in the occupied territories. All his movies since his first feature Curfew (1990) and then Haifa (1996) which was the first Palestinian movie officially selected in Cannes, receive regular international selections, awards and broadcasting. They reflect with irony the daily Palestinian life and are studied in many universities.

In 1996 he founded the Cinema Production and Distribution Center (Ramallah) to develop a Palestinian cinematographic reflection (workshop, professional training, kids festival and mobile cinema). Many Palestinian filmmakers who have an international career, have attended this institution.

He still pursues this goal by training himself new generations of directors and never stops to create, even during corona’s lockdowns, by filming neighbours in “Diary of Gabrielle Street”. He is currently developing his new feature films “passing Dreams”, a road movie searching for a missing bird all over Palestinian cities.