On the intersection between performance and film, Palestinian filmmaker Noor Abed’s work explores human relationships. For example, our songs were ready for all wars to come is an 8mm footage choreography of playing women whose stories are linked by communal mourning rituals.

In the film, Maya Khaldi sings a song as a collage of various Palestinian folk tales. Abed's film is a call for emancipation through the lore and folk knowledge embedded in the land: “Researching Palestinian folktales for a few years now, I have always been amazed by the communal aspect of these tales and at how much these communities are aware of the landscape around them - in every tale, the details of a stone, a cave, a particular side of a mountain. They know it deeply; it’s theirs; they own it,” the filmmaker claims.