Showtimes: https://americandoctorfilm.com
Check out Hasan’s interview with Dr. Thaer Ahmad & Dr. Feroze Sidhwa about their experience as physicians in Gaza and their new documentary American Doctor here:
“A huge shroud containing the names of 60,000 people killed in Gaza was unfurled tonight (August 8) at the Locarno Film Festival in a peaceful demonstration outside the Piazza Grande.
“The protest took place shortly before a sold-out Piazza Grande screening of Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, which is being attended by over 8,000 people.
“In literature distributed at the festival, they called on the Swiss government to pressure Israel to open Gaza’s borders to allow in essential aid and independent media and to bring injured victims to Switzerland for treatment.”
-Tim Dams, Screen Daily
Founded in 1946, the 79th Locarno Film Festival is taking place from August 5 to August 15, 2026, in Locarno, Switzerland. The renowned open-air event features 233 films, including 103 world premieres.
Can’t wait to see these, from the article:
“Palestinian cinema is represented by Ahmed Hassouna’s Citizen Osama and Muayad Alayan’s Conversation With the Sea.
“Citizen Osama will be screened out of competition. The France-Palestine documentary follows a former artistic photographer who has become a war documentarian in northern Gaza, where he records the devastation around him while trying to protect his wife and newborn child.
“Alayan’s Conversation With the Sea has been selected for the Venezia Spotlight section.
Set in Jerusalem, it follows Kamal, a 60-year-old Palestinian man ordered by an Israeli court to pay a social security debt attributed to his son, who is believed to have drowned in the Red Sea decades earlier. When no official record of his death can be found, Kamal begins searching for answers about what happened to him.
“The 83rd Venice Film Festival will run from September 2 to 12.”