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If Birds Believed in God (2025)
Directed by Samer Saifan
“Beauty in the Struggle”
Drama · 22m
The story follows a day in the life of Ismail, a Palestinian photographer whose American upbringing was shaped by his grandfather’s displacement during the 1948 Palestine Nakba. When Ismail’s mother gifts him his grandfather’s keffiyeh—a traditional Palestinian scarf—it triggers an internal struggle between shame and pride in his cultural identity, all unfolding against the ominous backdrop of rising violence against Palestinians.
Cast
Adam Budron
Nasser Faris
Veracity Butcher
Ron Fallica
Martin Pfefferkorn
Crew
- Director
- Samer Saifan
- Writer
- Samer Saifan
- Director of Photography
- Andrew Lin
- Editor
- Samer Saifan
- Producer
- Darren Zeng, Natalia Hess, Samer Saifan
Details
- Release date
- 2025-10-25
- Runtime
- 22m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Silverman Productions Sound, Infinite Zero Pictures, Brego Studios