Special Presentations | Germany | German, Arabic | 56 min
Not Just Your Picture follows the devastating journey of German-Palestinian siblings Ramsis and Layla Kilani, whose lives were shattered in 2014 when their father and family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. As they grapple with the loss, the siblings navigate a politicized world, seeking justice for their family while confronting a political reality that allows atrocities and suppresses criticism.
Is an award-winning photographer and film-maker with a background in international human rights law. She had lived and worked in Palestine for over a decade and has been a member of Activestills photo collective since 2006 and is currently based in Paris. In 2017 she won the “International Photographer of the Year” award for her award-winning web-documentary Obliterated Families, about the families in Gaza shattered by the 2014 military offensive. Dror Dayan (Germany/UK) was born in 1981 in Jerusalem and is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and the UK. He studied cinematography at the Film University “Konrad Wolf” where he completed his first feature documentary Even Though My Land is Burning, which analyses the role of Jewish-Israeli activists within the Palestinian popular struggle in the West Bank. He is currently a lecturer for media production at the Screen School of the John Moores University in Liverpool.
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