On my 40th birthday, my sister and her daughters took me to a wildlife park where I watched, in awe, a Peregrine Falcon dive into the stadium from over a kilometre above us. At that moment, this story was born. The film reflects the power of small, intimate moments to confront politics and transcend death.
It references the occupation of Palestine – the continuous cycle of attacks, rebuilding, resistance, internal conflicts, and whatever comes next. Times like these require new forms
of cinema, and I want to develop a unique Arab cinematic vocabulary inspired by Arabic folktales and classical Arabic music.
With a patient camera, scenes will unfold delicately, allowing the audience to be absorbed in every frame; to consider their lives in relation to Suleiman’s. This is a cinema of uncertainty, pandemics, revolutions, extremism, and the perpetual wars of colonialism and liberation. It is, ultimately, the cinema of
my perspective: my fears and dreams.