12 minutes 50 seconds
Spain, Palestine
2017

Set in Palestine, Memory of the Land follows a lone figure attempting to navigate a deeply symbolic checkpoint⁠—a representation of the Israeli occupation. Through haunting visual metaphors, the short delves into how structural and physical violence restricts freedom of movement and assaults everyday existence.

Director: Samira Badran
Writer: Samira Badran, Oriol Martin Gual
Producer: Samira Badran, Jaume Serra