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2026
Short Documentary(East Coast Premiere)

Another Day Shall Come (سيجيء يوم آخر)

A film still from Another Day Shall Come shows the ruins of a Palestinian house in Wadi Salib, a neighborhood in the city of Haifa. The image shows the side of a worn stone wall with a blue sky in the background.

As the genocide in Gaza unfolds, nearly 2 million Palestinians holding Israeli citizenship and living in historical Palestine find themselves confined within an intensifying imposed silence. Since October 2023, words have grown dangerous and gestures increasingly restrained, and even the act of speaking carries serious political consequences. Within this suffocating reality, Aida, a Palestinian filmmaker, chooses to resist silence by listening.

 

Through an open call, she reached out to Palestinians across the 1948 borders, inviting them to share their feelings through anonymous voice messages. These recordings tell the story of 76 years of suffocation, highlighting what it feels like to mourn quietly and to live a life of alienation and fear. While hearing these voices, we follow the camera, wandering through streets, landscapes and ordinary spaces heavy with violence and erasure — telling the little-known reality of Palestinians living within Israeli society, on the verge of disappearance.

Screenings

Virtual

Availability BeginsFriday, August 73:00PM EDT

Directors Spotlight

Aida Kaadan

Director

Aida Kaadan (b. 1994) is a Palestinian filmmaker and writer based in Haifa. Her short films explore intimate and political realities through personal storytelling. Her latest short, Another Day Shall Come, premiered at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. She is currently developing her debut feature film.

Year
2026
Runtime
20 minutes
Country
Palestine
Language
Arabic
Director
Aida Kaadan
Screenwriter
Aida Kaadan
Producer
Aida Kaadan
Co Producer
Carol Mezher
Cinematographers
Aida Kaadan, Mostafa Kadah
Editor
Abdallah Sada
Composers
Diego Rojas, Anas Asadi
Sound Design
Mazin Helal, Israel Banuelos
Premiere
East Coast

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