Palestinian Children’s Mental Health Awareness: Art as Healing

This exhibition presents stories and illustrations created through psychosocial work with Palestinian children in Bethlehem. Developed by Anar, shown in collaboration with the Solidarity Hub and MHHRI, and hosted by HUMAN Film Festival, the installation explores how art and storytelling support children living under conflict. Visitors are invited to reflect on resilience, rights, and the emotional worlds of young people growing up amid violence.

This exhibition presents stories and illustrations created through psychosocial work with Palestinian children in Bethlehem at Anar. It presents a selection from Anar’s forthcoming book, offering an intimate window into the inner worlds of Palestinian children, their fears, dreams, and coping mechanisms.

six smiling children holding up their drawings

Photo: Anar Bethlehem

This installation is a book-based art exhibition that highlights children’s creative expression as a form of psychosocial support. It presents selected stories and illustrations from Anar’s forthcoming book, offering an intimate window into the inner worlds of Palestinian children, their fears, dreams, and coping mechanisms.

The exhibition aims to situate art within a broader mental-health and human-rights framework. It presents children’s works alongside contextual information about psychosocial support in Palestine, inviting festival visitors to reflect on the ways in which creativity functions as a lifeline for children living under chronic threat.

We encourage visitors to engage more deeply with lived experience, resilience, and rights-based approaches to care.

The exhibition will be located on the second floor of Cinemateket, and will be open the whole festival week, from 2 to 8 March, closing at 18:00 on Sunday.

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Published Feb. 13, 2026 4:10 PM - Last modified Mar. 2, 2026 6:38 PM