An Orange from Jaffa
2023
Mohammed Almughanni
Mohammed Almughanni
Maciej Edelman
France, Poland, Palestine
Synecdoche, Indeks Film Studio
Lumisenta Film Foundation
National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC)
International Grand Prix – Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival,
France, 2024, Best European Film – Kraków Film Festival, Poland, 2024, Grand Prix – Omladinski Film Festival Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024, Best Narrative Short Film – Chicago Palestine Film Festival, United States, 2024, Audience Award – Le Cri du Court, La Ciotat, France, 2024, Special Mention – Art Film Festival, Košice, Slovakia, 2024, Special Jury Mention – Freedom Film Festival, Radom, Poland, 2024, Lucjan Bokiniec Award – Best Short Film – Polish Film Festival, Gdynia, Poland, 2024, Special Mention (Fiction Category) – Spektrum Film Festival, Świdnica, Poland, 2024, Grand Prix (Etude Category) – Kamera Akcja Film Festival, Łódź, Poland, 2025, Best Fiction Film (Polish-Czech Competition) – Zoom-Zbliżenia International Film Festival, Jelenia Góra, Poland, 2025, Audience Award (Short Film) – Kosciuszko Foundation Polish Film Festival, Washington D.C., United States, 2025, Grand Prix (Independent Film Category) – OKFA National Independent Film Competition, Konin, Poland, 2025, Jan Machulski Award – Best Directing – Mohammed Almughanni, 2025, Jan Machulski Award Nomination – Best Cinematography – Maciej Edelman, 2025, Silver Star – Best Short Film – El Gouna Film Festival, Egypt, 2024, Prix Louis Le Prince – Best Short Film – Leeds International Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2024, Golden Tower Award – Best Film (International Competition) – Cairo International Short Film Festival, Egypt, 2024, Corto di Diritti / Amnesty International Award – Corto Dorico Film Festival, Italy, 2024, Special Screening – Arte Carte Blanche – Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, France, 2024, Special Screening – Ajyal Film Festival, Qatar, 2024, Official Selection – Athens Palestine Film Festival, Greece, 2025, Official Selection – Bolton International Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2024, Official Selection – Valencia International Film Festival, Spain, 2024, Official Selection – La Guarimba International Film Festival, Italy, 2024, Official Selection – Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2024
War on Screen 2020, Brussel Coproduction Forum 2021
Mohammed, a young Palestinian, is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint. Farouk, the taxi driver, hesitates because the young man does not have a pass but only a European resident student card. Already at the checkpoint, Farouk discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross another checkpoint that day. And so the trouble begins.
