SAMEER QUMSIYEH

PALESTINE | 2015 | 35’

The filmmaker goes to volunteer in a natural history museum in Bethlehem after realizing that his boring life is a result of his connection to the Internet instead of being connected to nature and people. The filmmaker starts to explore the concepts of volunteering, sharing, helping, and conserving nature while he's forming personal bonds with the volunteers there.
 There were no pre-production or planning: “the idea behind this experiment is that we don’t always need to write everything on paper before shooting, life is happening right now and you have to capture the moment while it’s happening, and the story is not something you have to create, you are the story, you just have to be there.”

Sameer Qumsiyeh is a  filmmaker based in Beit Sahour. Graduate of the documentary film department at Dar Al Kalima College. Apart from directing his own short, documentaries and experimental he has worked as a freelance editor on several documentary and fiction film productions in Palestine. He has directed “Connected” (2015),  “What If”,  “In Love with a German” and “Valoeldur” (2012).