Combining storytelling, standup comedy, and mask performance, The Horse of Jenin is constructed from fragments of Palestinian actor and comedian Alaa Shehada’s own memories—including the actual Horse of Jenin sculpture built from rubble after the 2003 invasion—and stands as an ode to the power of imagination and the resilience it brings. This exclusive in-person Seattle screening of Alaa's 80-minute performance at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 will be followed by a talkback with local artists whose creative liberation work draws compelling parallels with Alaa’s groundbreaking performance: Kamari Bright, Diana Fakhoury, and Hala Saleh. 

The play opens as a woman walks into an autobody shop in the town of Herzliya, Israel, and starts talking to a mechanic who works there. This seems quite natural until the conversation progresses, a mystery starts to unfold, and tensions build. One of the two people is Palestinian, one of them is Jewish Israeli—and by the end of the play, both their lives will be changed forever. The screening will be followed by a discussion with playwrights Hanna Eady and Edward Mast. 

From Executive Producer Macklemore, The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses. Featuring detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistleblowers, and organizers, the film captures the deeper stakes of a historic moment that continues to reverberate across the globe

A Nubian woman who was forcibly displaced from her village in the south of Egypt due to its intentional flooding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam, tells her true story interwoven with a traditional folktale passed down to her from her grandmother.