Yalla Parkour
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival (2025) – Nominated: Panorama Audience Award: Documentary Film
Cleveland International Film Festival (2025) – Nominated: Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Award
Hong Kong International Film Festival (2025) – Winner: Golden Firebird Award
Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon (2025) – Nominated: Audience Award: Grand Angle Competition
DOC NYC (2024) – Winner: Grand Jury Prize: International Competition
Filmmaker Areeb Zuaiter was born in the Palestinian city of Nablus but left the country with her parents when she was still an infant, although the family made regular trips back home, including, on one occasion, a visit to the sandy shorelines of the Gaza coast. This intensely personal film connects those trips—and Areeb’s vivid and nostalgic memories—to a young parkour enthusiast in Gaza named Ahmed. Ahmed, together with his crew of close friends, acrobatically negotiates the parts of the city that have been reduced to ruins by the ongoing genocide that is a constant backdrop to Palestinian life. Areeba connects with Ahmed on social media, and as their relationship develops, she explores the landscape of her memories, through the eyes of her young friend. Beyond the power of its own narrative, Yalla Parkour offers a last glimpse of a pre-October 7th Gaza, the reality it documents now utterly destroyed.
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Previous Festivals
Berlin Int’l FF (2025)
Cleveland Int’l FF (2025)
DOC NYC (2024)
Hong Kong Int’l FF (2025)
Visions du Réel Int’l FF Nyon (2025)
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