Shifting Tides Shorts Programme + Q&A (15*)

From the ache of first love in Beirut’s restless streets in Ebb & Flow, to the sun-drenched memories of girlhood, sibling rivalry and migration in After the Sun, these films explore when growing up bends, pauses, or slips sideways. In A Short Film About Kids, Palestinian children embark on a determined journey to the sea, a simple dream that becomes quietly radical. 

Nefta Football Club walks the fine line between play and peril, as Tunisian boys stumble into a surreal adult world via a smuggler’s donkey. And in Amplified, Hind, a deaf karate athlete, must piece herself back together after a moment of violence threatens to unmoor her. Together, these stories sketch the flickers of becoming; the liminal, tender, and sometimes fierce edges where innocence fades, and something new begins to take hold.