Out of Gaza - Movie - Festival QUEER

Out of Gaza

Jannis Osterburg, Seza Tiyara Selen
Animation : 9' / Borders, Politics, Conflict

A young Palestinian woman wants to flee from Gaza with her friends, hoping to find freedom in the West. As a talented engineer she makes escape possible, but doubts arise if it is the right decision to leave. When they cross the wall, they encounter a world they did not expect.

* Part of the program “No Pride in Genocide (Queer Cinema for Palestine)”

Sections: QP - Queer Resistance
+ Info: https://www.queercinemaforpalestine.org

/ Details

Year: 2025

Country: Germany

Language: german, arabic

Subtitles: english

With: Hiyam Biary, Omid Daoud (voice overs)

/ Direction

Jannis Osterburg, Seza Tiyara Selen

Germany

Seza Tiyara Selen (she/her) and Jannis Osterburg (they/them) are university students in Hildesheim, Germany, who specialise in stop-motion animation. Their collaboration since 2018 featured live action and animation alike. Currently working on a feature length stop motion animation film called “Jil Garodin’s Adventures”, the focus of their work is on revolution, social justice and socialist as well as anarchist ideas. The trans filmmakers’ projects feature themes of queerness, anticolonialism, anti-imperialism and disability rights.