Don’t Cry is a short, animated film by the Palestinian filmmaker Hisham Zreiq.
The film is about a Palestinian girl, a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman who meet at a celestial lake, the meeting triggers a conflict between the man and the woman caused by a previous encounter, and the girl tries to mediate.
[1] In an interview with Zreiq in the Pan-Arabic culture online magazine of the London based The New Arab (Arabic: العربي الجديد) news agency said that the film uses symbolism, talking about the cycle of violence that always starts with an Israeli aggression, followed by a Palestinian reaction and results with more Palestinian deaths.
Perez also wrote "Zreiq's directorial vision is reminiscent of the mesmerizing blend of realism and surrealism found in films like Tarkovsky's "Stalker" (1979) and Panahi's "The Circle" (2000).
The celestial lake, a symbol of both unity and division, recalls the magical realism of García Márquez's literature.