Published by Adel Bseiso
October 8th Short Film - Shak Mustafa
/Music
Updated May 19, 2025
This short film tells the story of a painful, raw journey through the war on Gaza, each song like a chapter of grief and resistance. Soulless captures the brutal beginning, the first 30 days of the invasion, where war machines tore through neighborhoods, turning homes to rubble and leaving families with nothing but smoke and silence. Burn Me Alive digs deeper into that pain, showing the shattered families. Depicting parents holding lifeless children, children watching their worlds collapse, and people being burned and tortured while the world looks the other way. The heartbreak and torture continue with Orphans of War, a painful reflection on the children left without parents and the parents left without children: empty beds, dust-covered toys, and silent echoes of lives stolen too soon. Then there's Mass Graves, confronting the grim aftermath of the rising death toll and discovering the bodies hidden beneath hospitals and the families who never got the chance to say goodbye. Finally, Roots is about returning to what's left of home, standing among the ruins but still feeling something alive beneath the surface. It's a reminder that even when everything seems destroyed, the roots of Palestine remain strong. These songs depict the torture and despair that millions of Palestinians are going through. But they also carry hope, the quiet but powerful belief that no matter how much is taken, the spirit of the people and the land will never be erased.