Festival Triste – Bottles to the Sea

Solidarity Shorts

Fundraiser-screening for Palestine

18$ – includes a can of Zamalek 

100% of the proceeds will be given to Connecting Humanity, a registered charity sending eSIMS to Gaza.

One heart to another – across oceans, generations and arbitrary borders.

All struggles connected – from Haiti, to Vietnam to Sudan to Brazil to Palestine, a bridge between short stories about migration and absence, representation and memory, agency and powerlessness, self-determination and resilience… from the intimate to the collective.

A floating love letter dedicated to those who leave and those who stay. To all fighters, wherever they are.

This event is made possible thanks to the support of the film programmer Tam Dan Vu, the Festival Triste and Zamalek.

A can of Zamalek per person will be given at the end of the screening

COEUR BLEU

Samuel Suffren | Haiti, France | 2025 | creole, eng. subs  | 15”

Their loving son is away. Marianne and Petion are living in Haiti with a telephone, waiting for a call from the USA, where their son has left for the American dream.

WE WERE THE SCENERY

Christopher Radcliff | United States | 2025 | vietnamese, eng. subs | 15”

In 1975, soon after the end of the Vietnam War, Hoa Thị Lê Chế and Huệ Nguyên Chế fled to the Philippines in a makeshift boat. There, they were held in a refugee camp and, along with nearly one hundred other refugees, were recruited as background extras in the filming of APOCALYPSE NOW. 

SUDDENLY TV

Roopa Gogieni | Sudan, Qatar | 2022 | arabic, eng. subs  | 19”

A group of young revolutionaries create an imaginary television station at a besieged sit-in. What begins as play becomes an urgent conjuring of a new Sudan.

I SIGNED THE PETITION

Mahdi Fleifel | Germany, Switzerland, UK | 2018 | english, eng. subs | 11”

Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyses, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel.

O RIO DE JANEIRO CONTINUA LINDO

Felipe Casanova | Brazil, Switzerland | 2025 | portuguese, eng. subs | 24”

Within the revelry of Rio’s Carnival, Ilma writes to her son. How does she sense his presence in the crowd? Suspended in time, the celebration becomes a space of memory and political resistance.