Palestinian stories set for major presence at 2027 Oscars

If you were to return to Gaza today, what would be the first thing that you would do? I will go to all my friends' graves, family members' graves, visit them. All my friends, all my family members, all my neighbors. I may spend one or two days just visiting their graves. Close my eyes. and go home without seeing and I will open my eyes gradually in one or two weeks time but I will not be able to see what happened for my houses and my garden, my beautiful garden. Enough now. I mean for years, decades, those voices have not been heard. Hopefully there are many Palestinian filmmakers and very good Palestinian filmmakers who are raising those That culture, that memory, those people, those narratives, and this is very important. With what happened, they could have been suspected of promoting, I don't know, Palestinian terror or I don't know, you know. So a lot of people in the TV channels were afraid of any decision they could take, you know. Like maybe I will be judged as pro-Palestinian. So everybody was like completely paralyzed, you know. I try to tell stories in what we call the dead angle, not the things that are obvious. And I think if we make cinemas, it's not to do the same that things which are on the news. It's good to go find other ways to tell stories.