Abdallah Motan Movies Tour Screenig
Showing the short films: Rpg Kids and Deferred Reclaim
In collaboration with:
Cork Palestine Solidarity Campain
October 18th 2026 / 5pm - 6:30pm at The Roundy
Abdallah Motan was arrested by the Israeli occupation on January 13 and sentenced to six months of "Administrative detention" without trial or charges.
Abdallah Motan began his career as a photographer in 2012, working with several media organizations in Palestine. Later, he transitioned to video photography, collaborating with television and film directors as a director of photography, as well as documenting diverse cultures with Arab travelers in China, Tanzania, and Venezuela. His goal is to create exceptional movie experiences while exploring diverse cultures.
In 2017, he co-founded the Qamat Foundation to document the Palestinian struggle, serving as its Vice President until 2024. During his tenure at Qamat, he directed several short documentaries, including RPG Children (2022), which won the Best Short Documentary Award at the Tyre Film Festival in Lebanon in 2023, and Deferred Reclaim, which earned the Jury Prize at the Cinema Vérité Festival in Tehran in 2024 Abdullah was arrested on January 13 2025 and sentenced to six months of "administrative detention" without trial or charges. He still remains there now.
FILMS
- Rpg Kids
In 1982, the war had spread to the Palestinian-Lebanese border, and the Israeli colonial forces entered the Rashidiya camp in southern Lebanon. There, a number of young children were waiting for them. They were cubs of the Palestinian revolution, carrying RPG weapons and fighting the Zionist enemy. In this film, the director follows these children nearly 40 years after that anniversary.
- Deferred Reclaim
In the on-going war of genocide and in light of the phenomenon of detaining the bodies of martyrs in refrigerators, which the occupation has been carrying out since 2015 against the bodies of the martyrs and the hearts of their families, the director of the film “Deferred Recovery” enters the corridors of their homes and narrates what their mothers are experiencing now after the occupation has disappeared the body of one of them and the other after it. She took over her son and the state of constant questioning mothers experience in the absence of her children.