Jenin & the Nakba Between Us

جنين والنّكبة بيننا  | Jenin & the Nakba Between Us, 90 / 52 min, in post-production

Armed with a Canadian passport, a diasporic Palestinian filmmaker struggles to make a contemporary portrait of Jenin, the ancestral hometown her parents fled following the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Guided by local residents — farmers, street vendors, taxi drivers, teachers, and elders — 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 & Editor: Serene Husni
Producers: Rula Nasser, Marc Serpa Francoeur
Cinematographer: Mashal Kawasmi
Production Coordinator / Visual Researcher: Ahmad Al-Bazz
Consulting Producer: Robinder Uppal

Produced The Imaginarium Films & Lost Time Media with support from the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, Canada Council for the Arts, FilmLab: Palestine, Ontario Arts Council, SFFILM Documentary Film Fund, Toronto Arts Council, and the Palestine Film Institute