Yalla Parkour is a 2024 documentary film written and directed by Areeb Zuaiter in her directorial debut feature. The film follows Areeb Zuaiter in pursuit of a memory that reinforces her sense of belonging, and she crosses paths with Ahmed, a parkour athlete in Gaza.
Yalla Parkour
November 13, 2025 8:00 pm
Presented with: Leeds International Film Festival
Areeb Zuaiter, 2024, 87 mins | Sweden, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine
Mill Hill Chapel, City Square, Leeds LS1 5EB
Doc NYC International Grand Jury Prize
2024 Berlinale 2024 Panorama
“Yalla Parkour” is never the least bit glib about the horrors at hand, but that only makes it all the more triumphantly bittersweet to watch Ahmed and his friends reach for a better life by climbing the rubble around them.
IndieWire
Director Areeb Zuaiter makes her feature debut with Yalla Parkour, a movie that begins with conversations from 2015. It was then that she started speaking, virtually, with the not-yet-20 Ahmed Matar, a parkour specialist living in Gaza…His fate offers hope, but Zuaiter reminds us, through word and image, of the vast despair for most everyone else.
Hammer to Nail
