There is a gold star up in the sky.

Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

Santa with a pint in Lynne Ramsay’s Gasman

This week I’m recommending a short documentary about Palestine, plus an array of out-of-the-box Holiday themed shorts, including films from Alanis Obomsawin, Lotte Reiniger, and Lynne Ramsay.

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22-year-old Mays hopes to attend university in Sweden in Camilla Magid and Mahasen Nasser-Eldin’s short documentary From Palestine With Love

Camilla Magid and Mahasen Nasser-Eldin’s short documentary From Palestine With Love follows a young woman named Mays who lives in occupied Palestine and works at the Palestinian Circus School. She hopes to join her boyfriend Caspar in Sweden and continue her schooling at the University of Stockholm, but finds resistance from her family and gets caught in a bureaucratic feedback loop due to her status as a Palestinian. We get glimpses of Mays life and work, as well as conversations with her boyfriend over video messaging. You can watch this bittersweet doc on Doc Alliance’s website or rent it on Vimeo.

Alanis Obomsawin’s directorial debut Christmas at the Moose Factory is largely composed of drawings by Cree children at a residential school in northern Ontario