{"id":27271,"date":"2025-11-14T13:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/?page_id=27271"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:13:18","slug":"to-gaza-with-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/to-gaza-with-love\/","title":{"rendered":"To Gaza with Love: A Global Anijam"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1604469580079{margin-right: 5px !important;margin-left: 5px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”|||”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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!
\nTo 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!
\nMore at https:\/\/linktr.ee\/ac4pal <\/a><\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27377″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Bili smo semena \/ We Were Seeds<\/strong>
\nAdrian Piqueras
\nSpain, 0\u201930\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s flag as a tribute to this nation.
\nYou are seen. You are LOVED.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27379″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Cvetenje \/ Bloom<\/strong>
\n\u00c7a\u011f\u0131l Harmandar
\nTurkey, 0\u201940\u201d<\/p>\n

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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27381″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Cvetlice Palestine \/ Flowers of Palestine<\/strong>
\nShreyasi Das
\nCanada, 0\u201926\u201d<\/p>\n

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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27383″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\u010coln za Palestino \/ A Boat to Palestine<\/strong>
\nBrane Solce
\nSlovenia, 0\u201930\u201d<\/p>\n

A boat comes to Palestine and transforms into a flag.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27385″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Kjer je vse onemelo \/ Where All Fell Silent<\/strong>
\nJaime Freire
\nChile, 0\u201931\u201d<\/p>\n

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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27387″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Oliva \/ Olive<\/strong>
\nValeria Weerasinghe
\nItaly, 0\u201942\u201d<\/p>\n

A visual poem dedicated to the resilience of the Palestinian people through an olive as a symbol of belonging, peace and hope.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27389″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Osel \/ DON-KEY<\/strong>
\nNESPY5EURO
\nMexico, 0\u201938\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019t give in.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27413″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Ponve in pripro\u0161nje \/ Pots and Prayers<\/strong>
\nLiz Maelane
\nSouth Africa, 0\u201922\u201d<\/p>\n

An animator\u2019s participation in the global call to end Israel\u2019s 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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27394″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Prej in potem \/ Before and After<\/strong>
\nGerald Conn
\nUK, 0\u201918\u201d<\/p>\n

A short sequence animated in sand showing the destruction caused to a community by brutal modern warfare.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27396″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Prisluhni \/ Listen<\/strong>
\nErica Moriconi
\nBelgium, 0\u201925\u201d<\/p>\n

A sunbird regains hope in a small moment of compassion. I was moved to make this animation with Marwan Makhoul\u2019s writing and the beauty of Palestine\u2019s native landscape.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27415″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Sanje \/ Daydream<\/strong>
\nArnaud van Vliet
\nFrance, 0\u201940\u201d<\/p>\n

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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27400″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Spomin \/ Memory<\/strong>
\nNoemie Besombes, Brittany Arnett
\nCzechia, 0\u201934\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMemory – \u0629\u0631\u0643\u0627\u0630\u201c , 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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27371″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Svetloba iz ni\u010da \/ Light from Nothing<\/strong>
\nmade by displaced children between the ages of 10-13 from Deir al-Balah<\/p>\n

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.
\nThen 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![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27417″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Svobodna Palestina \/ Free Palestine<\/strong>
\nAneta Siurnicka
\nPoland, 0\u201916\u201d<\/p>\n

This animation is my little gesture of solidarity with the Palestinians.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27406″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Ta de\u017eela je \u017eenska \/ This Land is a Woman<\/strong>
\nJoanna Quinn
\nUK, 0\u201952\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy 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
\nof its women.\u201d Joanna Quinn[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27411″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]V svobodnem letu \/ Flying Free<\/strong>
\nChristina Booth
\nVB, 0\u201927\u201d<\/p>\n

S tem zoetropom sem hotela poslati sporo\u010dilo upanja in svobode. Upodablja palestinsko nacionalno ptico v svobodnem letu z \u017eeljo, da bi svobodo u\u017eivalo tudi palestinsko ljudstvo.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”27409″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Zdaj \/ Now<\/strong>
\nRCA Experimental Animation
\nVB, 0\u201926\u201d<\/p>\n

Skupinsko delo \u0161tudentov animacije iz Londona, ustvarjeno v me\u0161ani tehniki, ki s protestnimi gesli poka\u017ee, da svet neomajno podpira Gazo.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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