THE FILMMAKER
Mohammed Almughanni is a director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was born in 1993 in Gaza. He is a student of Film Directing at the Film School in Łódź. He returned to his homeland as a director to tell the story of the communities living in the shadow of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His works have  won several film festival awards.

 THE RESIDENCY
During his time at BAR, Almughanni spent a lot of time at the Shatila camp in Lebanon for Palestinian refugees, as part of his research process. Almughanni soon found inspiration for his documentary with the story of a thirteen year old Palestinian boy that he came across. The young teenager was struggling to get a valid ID that proves his existence. According to the Lebanese law, births outside of a marriage are considered illegal and cannot be registered at the country’s offices. Due to that law, the boy was neither allowed to go to school nor access  governmental healthcare. The film aims to portray the daily struggles of this boy and his fa