Unibrow Sun & Friendly Strangers Studios present…
Epicly Palestine’d
A documentary by Phillip Joa & Theo Krish
&
EXIST
A documentary by Markus Bengtsson & Viktor Telegin
with skating shorts in Palestine
October 27th at 7:30 PM
at Cobble Hill Cinemas
265 Court St, Brooklyn, NY
All Proceeds will go to Skatepal in Palestine
This event was curated and produced by Sabri Sundos and Laith Zuaiter.
Again, ALL PROCEEDS from this screening with benefit the work that Skatepal is doing to bring joy to Palestine through skate boarding.
Filmed a decade apart, two powerful titles trace the rise of skateboarding in Palestine, from its grassroots birth under occupation to one athlete’s journey of resistance on the road to the Olympic qualifiers.
Epicly Palestine’d
United Kingdom, 2015, Phillip Joa and Theo Krish, 27’
Filmed in 2015 primarily on phones, with zero budget, Epicly Palestine’d is a short documentary capturing the birth of Palestine’s skate scene. With no equipment, no facilities and no blueprint, a small group of teenagers make history by becoming Palestine’s first skateboarders. Despite the challenges of living under military occupation, they set out to build a community from scratch – planting the seeds for what, nearly a decade later, would lead to Palestine’s first Olympic skateboarder.
EXIST
Sweden, 2025, Markus Bengtsson and Viktor Telegin, 40’
EXIST follows Palestinian skateboarder, Aram Sabbah, in the weeks leading up to the Olympic qualifiers in Dubai. Leaving his war-torn homeland, Aram isn’t chasing medals, he’s carrying the mantle for Palestine with a drive to send a message – Palestine exists beyond media headlines and nameless statistics. Through skateboarding, Aram defines the forces that seek to silence and erase his people, offering instead resilience and a quiet resistance built on presence, passion and hope.
SkatePal was founded in 2013 with the aim of developing a self-sustaining skateboarding scene in Palestine.
We support the scene in the following ways:
Infrastructure
Capacity Building
Advocacy
Fundraising
Unibrow Sun & Friendly Strangers Studios present…
Epicly Palestine’d
A documentary by Phillip Joa & Theo Krish
&
EXIST
A documentary by Markus Bengtsson & Viktor Telegin
with skating shorts in Palestine
October 27th at 7:30 PM
at Cobble Hill Cinemas
265 Court St, Brooklyn, NY
All Proceeds will go to Skatepal in Palestine
This event was curated and produced by Sabri Sundos and Laith Zuaiter.
Again, ALL PROCEEDS from this screening with benefit the work that Skatepal is doing to bring joy to Palestine through skate boarding.
Filmed a decade apart, two powerful titles trace the rise of skateboarding in Palestine, from its grassroots birth under occupation to one athlete’s journey of resistance on the road to the Olympic qualifiers.
Epicly Palestine’d
United Kingdom, 2015, Phillip Joa and Theo Krish, 27’
Filmed in 2015 primarily on phones, with zero budget, Epicly Palestine’d is a short documentary capturing the birth of Palestine’s skate scene. With no equipment, no facilities and no blueprint, a small group of teenagers make history by becoming Palestine’s first skateboarders. Despite the challenges of living under military occupation, they set out to build a community from scratch – planting the seeds for what, nearly a decade later, would lead to Palestine’s first Olympic skateboarder.
EXIST
Sweden, 2025, Markus Bengtsson and Viktor Telegin, 40’
EXIST follows Palestinian skateboarder, Aram Sabbah, in the weeks leading up to the Olympic qualifiers in Dubai. Leaving his war-torn homeland, Aram isn’t chasing medals, he’s carrying the mantle for Palestine with a drive to send a message – Palestine exists beyond media headlines and nameless statistics. Through skateboarding, Aram defines the forces that seek to silence and erase his people, offering instead resilience and a quiet resistance built on presence, passion and hope.
SkatePal was founded in 2013 with the aim of developing a self-sustaining skateboarding scene in Palestine.
We support the scene in the following ways:
Infrastructure
Capacity Building
Advocacy
Fundraising