From Ground Zero () is a 2024 anthology film directed by 22 different Palestinian directors. The film is made up of 22 short films, including documentaries, fiction, animation and experimental films about the current situation of the people of the Gaza Strip in the midst of the Gaza war.
From Ground Zero premiered at the 5th Amman International Film Festival on 5 July 2024 and had its North American premiere at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2024 as part of the TIFF Docs section. It was selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist, but was not nominated.
After the start of the Gaza war, film director Rashid Masharawi founded the Masharawi Fund for Cinema and Filmmakers in Gaza with the purpose of supporting young Palestinian filmmakers to express themselves and tell their stories through cinema. Masharawi supported the production and post-production of the 22 short films that make up From Ground Zero filmed in different parts of the Gaza Strip at the end of 2023.
The film was scheduled to have its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, but was pulled by organizers on "political grounds". In response, Masharawi held a screening via projection outside the festival grounds in protest. It had its official world premiere on July 5, 2024, at the 5th Amman International Film Festival, then screened in mid-July 2024 at the 70th Taormina Film Festival, on September 9, 2024, at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival and on September 28, 2024, at the 17th Toronto Palestine Film Festival.
Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film four out of four stars, praising it as a "staggering achievement" not just for being completed but also for expressing that "after a catastrophe, art is not only still possible but necessary". He stated that "We don't always understand the connections between people within individual stories and have to intuit them.... Rather than being confusing, this has a universalizing effect. We feel it could happen to us, too, or that it is happening to us, thanks to the empathy machine aspect of cinema storytelling." Seitz concluded that "Even amid so much murder and destruction, the urge to create abides. For all its horror and sadness, this is one of the most hopeful films I've ever seen." Seitz later named From Ground Zero as the best film of 2025.