by mustafas6 August 2020 | The Freedom Theatre (TFT) is proud to announce the upcoming release of Future Impossible, a short film that seeks to open an urgent, long-overdue conversation on mental health for young Palestinians.
For many young people in Palestine, the future is not simply uncertain—it is systematically made impossible to imagine. The COVID-19 pandemic is only one layer of isolation. Daily life is shaped by intersecting realities: extreme poverty, unemployment, the constant threat of violence and death, mass imprisonment, annexation and dispossession, and rising temperatures that turn summers into relentless heat.
And yet, Palestinians are repeatedly expected, by the international community and often by their own societies, to embody resilience without limits: to remain reasonable, hopeful, and unbreakable.
There is nothing normal about living under military occupation. There is nothing ordinary about carrying grief, fear, and uncertainty as a daily condition. Yet in many communities, speaking openly about anxiety, depression, trauma, and vulnerability remains taboo. Emotion is too often treated as weakness. Silence becomes survival, until it becomes danger.
Future Impossible is a call to break that silence.
A call to speak, to listen, and to recognise the full complexity of emotions that come with life under occupation, before we lose another life to suicide.
Credits
Director: Ahmed Tobasi
Camera: Mohammed Mouwia
Written and performed by:
Ehab Abed, Jamal Jaas, Khalid Farj, Mahmoud Abu Aita, Momen Al-Sadi, Motasem Abu Hasan, Omar Silawe, Rose Biblos, Shatha Yasin.
Produced by: The Freedom Theatre (TFT)
In collaboration with: Creative Destruction