Don't Cry (2022)

Directed by

Hisham Zreiq

Country

Palestine, Germany

Runtime

10 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Palestinian girl, a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman meet at a celestial lake. The man and woman conflict over a past encounter while the girl tries to keep the peace.

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What happens

Don’t Cry is a short, animated film by the Palestinian filmmaker Hisham Zreiq. The film is about a Palestinian girl, a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman who meet at a celestial lake, the meeting triggers a conflict between the man and the woman caused by a previous encounter, and the girl tries to mediate. In an interview with Zreiq in the Pan-Arabic culture online magazine of the London based The New Arab (Arabic: العربي الجديد) news agency said that the film uses symbolism, talking about the cycle of violence that always starts with an Israeli aggression, followed by a Palestinian reaction and results with more Palestinian deaths. Many symbols are to be seen in the film set, like a broken hourglass, a broken alarm clock and a slow-moving snail as a symbol for the death of peace and the time stand still after the collapse of Oslo accords. Other symbols like a bullet and a stone, unbalanced scale symbolizing the unbalanced conflict. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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