The Battle of Empty Stomachs

A short film by Diana Al-Halabi - 2024

Winner of the IFFR RTM Pitch award for production and supported by Mondriaan Fonds artist start.

Synopsis

Based on research and interviews with both Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers, this absurdist yet realist film stages a dialogue between the director and her mother tongue that centers on a single question: what do we know about hunger?

This film is a poetic and musical tribute to those who suffered the aftermath of famine and migration, and to Palestinian hunger strikers whose resistance outlives the deafening silence of the colonial world.

Diana Al Halabi the battle of empty stomachs film

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Produced by:

Revolver: Yara Yuri Safadi, Diana Al-Halabi

Main Cast:

Fernando Troya, Mustafa Kur, Annemarijn Bulsnik, Sophia Haid

Cinematographer:

Pauline Maroun

Music:

Farah Kaddour & Salwa Jaradat

Directed, written, and edited by:

Diana Al-Halabi

A still shot from the film The Battle of Empty Stomachs, where we see a man on the floor in a tunnel.

Still shot from The Battle of Empty Stomachs, a prisoner, a free person, and a prison guard are next to a high table in a tiled underground tunnel.