Two Meters of This Land

Ahmad Natche, 2012, 80′

In Arabic, with English subtitles

Two Meters of This Land shows what happens on a summer evening in an outdoor theatre in Ramallah (West Bank, Palestine), where a popular music concert is being prepared. A gallery of journalists, technicians and artists meets there some hours before the show. All the action takes place in that same location during one single evening. “One year before I shot the film I worked in Jerusalem and Ramallah while I was trying to get ideas for a feature film. Summer is the time for outdoor music festivals in Palestine and I visited many of them. That same summer, the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish died and he was buried at the summit of a Ramallah hill, very close to the outdoor theatre I set as the location for my film. I decided to use one of his poems for the title. In the last lines of Mural, he talks about the piece of territory he would need the day he died: “Two meters of this land are enough for me for now”. Since I wanted to make a film about one particular space of Palestine, it seemed to me a dramatic metaphor of the Palestinian struggle.” (Ahmad Natche)

Ahmad Natche was born in Seville (Spain, 1974) to a Palestinian father. He studied at the University of Sevilla and in Cuba. In Cuba he directed The Foreigner (El Extranjero, 2000), which won Best Fiction short film at the FAD Awards, Barcelona. As an editor he received an Icaro prize for Dear Camilo (2007). He has also written as a critic for several film magazines.

Introduced by Mohanad Yaqubi & Reem Shilleh

This event is part of the Courtisane Festival 2026

More infos: https://www.courtisane.be/en/event/undercurrents-3-two-meters-land