The Battle of Empty Stomachs
معركة الأمعاء الخاوية
Based on research and interviews with both Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers, this absurdist yet realist film stages a dialogue between the director in her mother tongue that centres on a single question: what do we know about hunger?
This film is a poetic and musical tribute to those who suffered the aftermath of famine and migration, and to Palestinian hunger strikers whose resistance outlives the deafening silence of the colonial world. Filmmaker Diana Al-Halabi won the RTM Pitch Prize at IFFR 2023, which allowed her to realise this film.
Also in this combined programme
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You Can’t Automate Me
Lashers risk their lives securing shipping containers. Each of their bodies tells its own story. -
So Loud the Sky Can Hear Us
A group of Feyenoord supporters unfold a hidden world of faith, love, compassion, and vulnerability. -
Fantoomwijk
A lively working-class neighbourhood is forced to make way for luxury homes.Fantoomwijk shows the destructive consequences for its former residents. -
Bubbling Baby
A celebration of a heritage often overlooked, Bubbling dance culture is reframed and reclaimed.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
