Do You See Me? - إنتا شايفني؟
15 minutes | Palestine | 2025
Synopsis:
Do You See Me? is a short poetic lm about Gaza under famine conditions — a haunting cinematic photopoem that bears witness to the human cost of engineered starvation. Through still images, fragments of testimony, and silence, the lm confronts what hunger does not only to life, but to memory and voice. Each frame becomes both evidence and elegy. Rooted in the courage of Gaza’s families, doctors, and photojournalists, Do You See Me? refuses erasure and asks the simplest, most devastating question: Do You See Me?.
Director Biography - Mo Sati
Mo Sati is a Palestinian writer, poet, and playwright whose work is rooted in witness, resistance, and the preservation of Palestinian narratives. Across stage, screen, and image, he creates works that refuse erasure and insist on naming the dead, remembering the living, and exposing atrocity.
His major theatrical works include They Have Names—with versions such as Hind Rajab – In Her Voice and Lamentation in Motion—and The Ice Cream War, a satirical play on colonizer entitlement. Beyond the stage, Sati develops photopoems and spoken-word films that fuse testimony, frontline photography, and haunting soundscapes into urgent acts of witness.
His latest work, Do You See Me?, confronts the deliberate starvation imposed on Gaza, weaving the voice of a child with stark images from the ground. Created with no budget, in collaboration with volunteers and frontline journalists, the film insists that Palestinians must create from nothing, unapologetically placing their stories before the world.