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Enjoy a selection of short films featuring stories from Palestine and Lebanon.
Colors of Resilience: When Children's Drawings Become History
co-authored by Issam AlYamani and Jude Barakat
TIFF Lightbox, 350 King St W, Toronto — Gallery Atrium (Lobby)
EXHIBITION TOUR WITH ISSAM ALYAMANI: Saturday October 3 at 4:30pm.
Join the Exhibition Tour with Issam Alyamani on Oct 3 at 4:30pm - Meet in the exhibition space - please sign up (free). He will talk through the exhibition and tell the stories behind the drawings.
Colors of Resilience by Issam AlYamani and Jude Barakat is a powerful collection of drawings created by Palestinian children during the First Intifada (1987–1993). These drawings are firsthand accounts that preserve the voices, hopes, fears, and resilience of children living through extraordinary circumstances of the First Intifada.
In collaboration with Issam Alyamani, TPFF is please to have on display a selection of the original drawings featured in the book. Together, they form both a cultural archive and a moving tribute to the enduring strength of Palestinian children.
Pre-order your copy of “Colors of Resilience”: Click the button and order your book via TPFF. Pick up the book at the TPFF table in the lobby between Sept 30-Oct 4. Advance price is $30. Unclaimed books will be returned to the author.
Pick up the book at the TIFF store in the lobby. Store price $39.
Order the book any time here: https://freetheolivetree.com/products/colors-of-resilience-palestinian-childrens-drawings
10% of every order is donated to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, helping provide vital medical care for Palestinian children.
Images from the Palestinian Museum Digital Archives
https://www.palarchive.org/
Accompanying the children’s drawings. is a collage of archival photos of children during the intifada. The images were selected by TPFF to show children living and resisting during this time. The high resolution files were provided by the Palestinian Museum. We are grateful for their support
The Maha Nassar Collection, Palestinian Museum Digital Archives
Shown as part of the From Palestine to Lebanon shorts collection
Film Details: 14 minutes | Directed by Bayan Abuta'ema | short doc| 2025 | Palestine, Jordan, Basque County
Synopsis: Starting in a yarn shop, we follow Aseel and Um Qusai in their daily lives, bound together by the threads of tatreez, traditional Palestinian embroidery. The film explores how embroidery intertwines memory, culture, identity, and intergenerational connection.
The Great March of Return
Steve Sabella
TIFF Lightbox, 350 King St W, Toronto — Gallery Atrium
Visit in-person: Sept 30 6:00pm until Oct 4, 8:30pm
Online: Sept 30-Oct 9 (free)
THE GREAT MARCH OF RETURN
A space
without borders.
The Great March of Return is a short film by Jerusalemite artist Steve Sabella, created from a collage of over one thousand photographs taken by five award-winning Palestinian journalists from Gaza. Their images show the crowds who gathered every Friday from March 2018 for eighteen months to demand an end to the never-ending Israeli occupation.
Sabella combines these scenes with photographs of outer space, merging the hermetically sealed Strip with infinity. This monumental “present-day fresco” demonstrates a nation’s enduring struggle for liberation.
The Great March of Return has been described as “a Palestinian Sistine Chapel” for its echoes of Renaissance painting and its message of rebirth (curator Daniela Brignone and poet Mohammed al-Assad)
Photographs: Ashraf Amra | Mohammed Asad | Atieh Darwish | Majdi Fathi | Mustafa Mohamad
Sound: Ghazi Barakat
Discover the artwork: https://the-great-march.stevesabella.space
Instagram: @steve_sabella
