Some Strings is a collection of unprecedented cinematic gestures. It finds its origin in what stains the screens of History: in Palestine, where poet and professor Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike along with seven members of his family on December 6, 2023. His final poem, If I Must Die, written between earth and sky five weeks before his death, calls for the creation of a kite from bits of string. The kite has become an object of resistance, its strings now held by artists and filmmakers around the world—each offering a perspective on one of the darkest moments of the 21st century.
In 2024, FID unveiled the very first films from this project. Since then, Some Strings has been shown in over 50 countries. This year, FID presents the complete collection of works created by more than 100 artists and filmmakers from a wide range of geographical, artistic, and social backgrounds.
These films do not stop the disappearance of the other, do not ease hunger, do not heal the wounded, do not feed the children—but they contribute to reshaping our understanding.
Programme of 11.07
PABLO SIGG - 2024 - nueva germania, elisabeth nietzsche’s aryan colony in the paraguayan jungle, 2019
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL - 2017-2024<
IGNIACIO AGÜERO - 2024 « jenny » - escuela escritora marcela paz, santiago de chile - taller de cine para nińos de alicia vega, agosto de 2013
BEN RIVERS - 2025 - « Theses on the Philosophy of History » - Walter Benjamin (1940)
BANI KHOSHNOUDI - montreuil, 2024 - archival photo: personal collection, date unknown
DORA GARCIA - ciudad de mexico, 2024 « amor rojo para gaza » adapted fragment of the film « (revolution, fulfill your promise) red love »
NADIA GHANEM - 2024 - the battle of algiers,g. pontecorvo, je vous salue, sarajevo,jl godard, if i muste die, r. alareer, lipstick to void, mica levi
KHRISTINE GILLARD, MOHAMMAD HAMMASH & FILIP MOMIKJ - brussels, 2024 « sketching session stripping architecture / sketching gaza »
AXELLE POISSON - romainville - 2008-2024
KYOSHI SUGITA - tokyo, april 2024 « saitama »
MICHAËL ANDRIANALY - tanandava, toamasina, madagascar, mai 2024 - avec ludo, lijo, esman, rado, hoby, gedio
AUDE FOUREL - lyon, mai 2024 - avec la voix de monica maurer - rushes non utilisés de tar el zaatar de j. chamoune & mustafa abu ali
ANNE PENDERS - belgique, 2011-2024 - voice improvised song claire buffet
JERÓNIMO ATEHORTÚA ARTEAGA - bogotá, april 2024 « convertirse en piedra »
IDIT ELIA NATHAN may 2024 « connecting the dots n°1 » - inspired by and with thanks to hannah arendt’s « the freedom to be free »