جنين والنّكبة بيننا  | Jenin & the Nakba Between Us, 90 min, est. release 2026

Made over ten years and filmed in large part a few months before October 7th, a diasporic Palestinian filmmaker struggles to make a contemporary portrait of Jenin, the ancestral home her parents were exiled from following the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Trying to make sense of the geographies of colonization and apartheid, she seeks the guidance of local residents — farmers, vendors, teachers, elders, and children — who help her understand what appears in her frame. She desperately tries to capture this elusive place, unaware that her footage would become a haunting record of yet another Palestinian community on the eve of unspeakable destruction and violent erasure.

Director, Writer: Serene Husni
Producers: Marc Serpa Francoeur, Rula Nasser
Editors: Muhammad El Khairy, Eyad Hamam, Serene Husni
Cinematographer: Mashal Kawasmi
Composer: Majd Sukar
Production Coordinator / Visual Researcher: Ahmad Al-Bazz
Consulting Producer: Robinder Uppal
Production: Lost Time Media, The Imaginarium Films

Produced with support from the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, Canada Council for the Arts, National Film Board of Canada, Ontario Arts Council, Palestine Film Institute, SFFILM Documentary Film Fund, Toronto Arts Council

Jenin & the Nakba Between Us was presented at AIDC’s FACTory’s Rough Cut Showcase (2025), DOC NYC’s Voices of Canada Industry Roundtables (2024), and the Palestine Film Institute’s Palestine Showcases at Sheffield DocFest, IDFA, and TIFF (2024).

Winner of Green Pitch at the 26th Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival in Toronto in October 2025!