TO GAZA, WITH LOVE: A Global Anijam invited animators and artists from around the world to create short 10-30 second animated messages of love and support to the Palestinian people. These animated sequences/films were then collected and uploaded to an interactive global map to highlight pockets of support for Gaza from around the world. Final animations are showcased on an online interactive map, indicating the location of support. One selected film will be shown before each festival screening. Free Palestine!
To Gaza, With Love: A Global Anijam is an initiative of the Animation Community for Palestine (AC4PAL), a volunteer collective of artists, animators, educators, festival directors, and curators from around the world. We are inspired by the incredible work of Haneen Koraz and her team in Gaza, who teach children to turn their stories into beautiful stop-motion animations. Their films are visionary and optimistic and offer a beacon of hope in the face of such devastation. Support AC4PAL!
More at https://linktr.ee/ac4pal
Bili smo semena / We Were Seeds
Adrian Piqueras
Spain, 0’30”
This film is a symbolic cut-out animation made with a homemade multi-plane to support and inspire children and adults in Gaza. Figures are created using the shapes and colours of Palestine’s flag as a tribute to this nation.
You are seen. You are LOVED.
Cvetenje / Bloom
Çağıl Harmandar
Turkey, 0’40”
Animation is a powerful medium but it takes so long to make. Its lengthy creation process makes it less than ideal as a political medium in times of urgency. However, watching all the little clips submitted to this project convinced me that the act of making animation is as important as the final product. Making animations can be an act of wish-making, praying and manifesting for peace. I am glad the community of animators took a stand and we stand tall together.
Cvetlice Palestine / Flowers of Palestine
Shreyasi Das
Canada, 0’26”
Flowers of Palestine is a short animation layering archival images of native flowers and vignettes of happy, free childhoods. It is a prayer for peace and freedom for the children of Gaza, the flowers of Palestine.
Čoln za Palestino / A Boat to Palestine
Brane Solce
Slovenia, 0’30”
A boat comes to Palestine and transforms into a flag.
Kjer je vse onemelo / Where All Fell Silent
Jaime Freire
Chile, 0’31”
A handmade stop-motion piece, created with heart, as part of the anijam initiated by @ac4pal and the brave work of @animator_haneen. A cry of hope against devastation.
Oliva / Olive
Valeria Weerasinghe
Italy, 0’42”
A visual poem dedicated to the resilience of the Palestinian people through an olive as a symbol of belonging, peace and hope.
Osel / DON-KEY
NESPY5EURO
Mexico, 0’38”
The donkey is resilient, it is tough, it is stubborn, but above all it is a source of life that resists and fights. We know you are there. Be like the donkey, don’t give in.
Ponve in priprošnje / Pots and Prayers
Liz Maelane
South Africa, 0’22”
An animator’s participation in the global call to end Israel’s illegal forced starvation of Palestinians, young and old. A noise, a prayer, a tiny offering to Gaza to know that from the far corners of the world we see you and we are in solidarity with you.
Prej in potem / Before and After
Gerald Conn
UK, 0’18”
A short sequence animated in sand showing the destruction caused to a community by brutal modern warfare.
Prisluhni / Listen
Erica Moriconi
Belgium, 0’25”
A sunbird regains hope in a small moment of compassion. I was moved to make this animation with Marwan Makhoul’s writing and the beauty of Palestine’s native landscape.
Sanje / Daydream
Arnaud van Vliet
France, 0’40”
In this fleeting dream, there are no bombs, no fear – only the wide sky, the endless sea, and the simple joy of flying a kite. A message of hope for the children of Gaza: a vision of peace, freedom and a childhood reclaimed.
Spomin / Memory
Noemie Besombes, Brittany Arnett
Czechia, 0’34”
“Memory – ةركاذ“ , a poem by Nour Ahmad, is a collage of the past and present Palestinian land and people. Grief and pain but also joy and love, vibrant culture, beauty and its destruction. All of that is part of the memory that Palestine has drawn in our hearts over the past year.
Svetloba iz niča / Light from Nothing
made by displaced children between the ages of 10-13 from Deir al-Balah
This film is about a child living in a tent whose candle blows out in a gust of wind. He doesn’t like the dark, so he tries to think what to do. He puts a potato in an empty can and connects a wire. There is a spark, but it quickly goes out.
Then he has a better plan. He gets a bicycle and connects the wire to the light. He starts to pedal fast and finally the tent lights up. He is happy! Gazan kids are ingenious!
Svobodna Palestina / Free Palestine
Aneta Siurnicka
Poland, 0’16”
This animation is my little gesture of solidarity with the Palestinians.
Ta dežela je ženska / This Land is a Woman
Joanna Quinn
UK, 0’52”
“My little film was inspired by the poem Hamza by the great Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan. I chose the part of her poem that compares and connects the mystery of the fertility of the Palestinian land to the mysterious power
of its women.” Joanna Quinn
V svobodnem letu / Flying Free
Christina Booth
VB, 0’27”
S tem zoetropom sem hotela poslati sporočilo upanja in svobode. Upodablja palestinsko nacionalno ptico v svobodnem letu z željo, da bi svobodo uživalo tudi palestinsko ljudstvo.
Zdaj / Now
RCA Experimental Animation
VB, 0’26”
Skupinsko delo študentov animacije iz Londona, ustvarjeno v mešani tehniki, ki s protestnimi gesli pokaže, da svet neomajno podpira Gazo.