Khalil, Please Answer

From a hospital bed in East Jerusalem, while awaiting surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, Khalil Abu Yahia, a young man from Gaza, reflects on freedom, belonging, and the longing to live in a land his family was forced to leave in 1948. In rare moments, he is able to walk through places he had known only through stories, experiencing however briefly a closeness to a homeland that had been out of reach his entire life. The film traces his journey between personal testimony and collective history, following his search for connection to place, to memory, and to a future built on hope.

The film weaves the wounds of the past with the reality of the ongoing Israeli genocide, in which Khalil was murdered together with his wife and daughters. In the face of the world’s indifference, what remains is the testimony of a man who sought to stop being a passing guest in his own land, and simply to live in it in freedom, justice, and equality.