{"id":57501,"date":"2026-01-28T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=57501"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:30:17","slug":"future-impossible-short-film-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2026\/01\/future-impossible-short-film-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Impossible: A Short Film Opening a Conversation on Mental Health in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>6 August 2020 | The Freedom Theatre (TFT)<\/strong> is proud to announce the upcoming release of <strong>Future Impossible<\/strong>, a short film that seeks to open an urgent, long-overdue conversation on <strong>mental health<\/strong> for young Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many young people in Palestine, the future is not simply uncertain\u2014it is systematically made <strong>impossible to imagine<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <strong>anxiety, depression, trauma, and vulnerability<\/strong> remains taboo. Emotion is too often treated as weakness. Silence becomes survival, until it becomes danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Future Impossible<\/strong> is a call to break that silence.<br>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> Ahmed Tobasi<br><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Mohammed Mouwia<br><strong>Written and performed by:<\/strong><br>Ehab Abed, Jamal Jaas, Khalid Farj, Mahmoud Abu Aita, Momen Al-Sadi, Motasem Abu Hasan, Omar Silawe, Rose Biblos, Shatha Yasin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Produced by:<\/strong> The Freedom Theatre (TFT)<br><strong>In collaboration with:<\/strong> Creative Destruction<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 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\u2014it is systematically made impossible to imagine. The COVID-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":57502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57503,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57501\/revisions\/57503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}