The 27-year-old Palestinian youth Anas al-Asta heads to Istanbul, Turkey, to present a set of films he produced that narrate the experiences of struggle and struggle experienced by Palestinians during different periods.

The young man in the Askar refugee camp, in the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, took the experience of arresting his father in Israeli prisons as a starting point for documenting individual struggle experiences that Palestinians fought, with the aim of introducing generations to them.

Anas, father of Samir al-Asta, was arrested for 17 years in Israeli prisons, for stabbing Israeli soldiers and settlers, but the details of his arrest were not known to many, until Anas was able to collect documents and pictures of him, and display them in a short film.

In the same vein, the young person, Anas, weaved films that narrate other tales similar to his father’s story, to establish “Qamat”, a non-profit organization aiming to document the experiences of the Palestinian struggle, through documentary or acting films, and collect rare documents and archives in this field.

Experiences of suffering and struggle
Anas succeeded with the Qamat team in producing 10 short films that discuss the life and experiences of different Palestinian personalities, including former detainees, wounded and deported, and women who faced the suffering of imprisonment and asylum. Anas told the Anatolia Turkish Agency that "Qamat is the first institution of its kind in Palestine, which is competent In documenting individual struggle experiences through documentaries and seminars. "

Al-Osta added in his statement that "the films take into account the documentation of immersed personalities, the media did not give them their rights, and we take into account regional, religious and social pluralism," adding that the most prominent of those who have documented their experiences so far are the Palestinian Umm Jabr Wishah from the Gaza Strip, which was known to all the occupation prisons During the visit of her detained son there, the blind sheikh Ali Hanoun, who was not blinded by the loss of sight from repeated arrest, and the prisoner Muhammad Ibrash, who lost his eye in Israeli prisons.

Anas and his team aspire to show their films in Istanbul, because they are convinced of the size of the interaction and support they will receive there, and Al Osta hopes that the Qamat Foundation will be able to perform a theatrical show about Palestinian personalities and militants, publish a comprehensive magazine about them, and reach the largest number of followers from different places.

An opportunity to rebuild identity
Saeed Abu Mualla, a Palestinian art critic and professor of media at the Arab American University in the West Bank (non-governmental), believes that there is a strong need for a project such as Qamat, to define and remind new generations of militant experiences and to recall them.

Commenting on Anatolia, Abu Mualla said, “There are opportunity to rebuild and restore the Palestinian identity and memory, and because it is a pure youth effort, it represents a noble case that requires its support and care.” He pointed out that there is a failure at the official level, at the level of civil institutions, and a state of refrain from caring about experiences. And the past struggle scenes, which lost the new generations knowledge of them, and the loss of everything presented to the issue, as he put it.

As for Saleh Mashareka, a professor of information at Birzeit University (non-governmental), he considered that the idea of ​​resurrections came in a timely manner, and covered an area that was not covered by any official or Palestinian civil institution, and Mashareqa pointed out in his dialogue with Anatolia, the importance of documenting and archiving the memory of detainees in Israeli prisons, And the scenes of the first Palestinian Intifada 1987, and perpetuating her stories, and broadcast them in festivals outside Palestine, especially in refugee camps.

Mashareqa added that this is a "courageous act that contributes to protecting the national memory, as no other institution governed by the terms and criteria of funding has done, which puts many caveats on the nature of documentary work," noting that the most important thing is to override the stature of political and partisan divisions, and leapfrog over those rankings The tribulation, and expressed his hope that the Foundation will receive support and attention from all sides, the importance of the role it plays in protecting the Palestinian cultural heritage.