Un ritratto della quotidianità nella Striscia di Gaza, dove una popolazione di circa due milioni di persone conduce la propria routine, nonostante i segni visibili lasciati dal perenne conflitto. È difficile immaginare uno spaccato di normalità a Gaza, spesso definita una prigione a cielo aperto, e che torna alla ribalta delle cronache solo quando sale la tensione tra Israele e Hamas. I registi del film hanno scelto di mostrare una Gaza, come raramente si vede: non attraverso le lenti dell’analisi politica, o mettendo in risalto la situazione di conflitto. Hanno scelto, invece, di immergersi nella quotidianità, nella semplicità della vita dei gazawi, cogliendone le sfumature culturali e la ricchezza sociale che ne deriva.
Gaza, 2013. Il giovane palestinese Mohammed Assaf partecipa al concorso canoro Arab Idol e diviene un simbolo per il suo popolo. Riuscirà a vincere? Da una storia vera.
A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.
Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.
Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their relationship. Yasmine's sister arrives for a visit from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister's house.
An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its consequences, using as a paradigmatic example the recent history of Israel and the Palestinian territories, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, from 1967, when the Six-Day War took place, to the present day; an account by filmmaker Avi Mograbi enriched by the testimonies of Israeli army veterans.
After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expect sympathy and cooperation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with any eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence. When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.
In una Gaza devastata dalla guerra un ragazzino palestinese, uno israeliano e un ex campione di surf, costretto al ritiro per via di un drammatico incidente, creano un’improbabile amicizia grazie al loro comune amore per il surf.
Flying Paper tells the uplifting story of resilient Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip on a quest to shatter the Guinness World Record for the most kites ever flown.
The film tells the compelling and moving stories of two remarkable young women living in Gaza and the struggle of Gazans trying to maintain their humanity and humor while hoping to find some sense of normality in a world that is anything but normal.
From the very first day of Israel-Gaza conflict in 2014, filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly has been there with his camera. He follows a team of paramedics in an ambulance, eventually becoming a core member who bears witness to their perilous and heartbreaking rescue work. Ambulance tracks the harrowing chaos amidst a state-run military operation on civilians.
Tomorrow’s Power is a feature length documentary that showcases three communities around the world and their responses to economic and environmental emergencies they are facing. In the war-torn, oil-rich Arauca province in Colombia, communities have been building a peace process from the bottom up. In Germany activists are pushing the country to fully divest from fossil-fuel extraction and complete its transition to renewable energy. In Gaza health practitioners are harnessing solar power to battle daily life-threatening energy blackouts in hospitals.
In 2010 the Freedom Flotilla attempts to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. In international waters the flotilla is attacked by the Israeli army and 9 people are killed. 9 anonymous people. But the dead still have a name. In 2014 Gaza is attacked by Israel. 2131 Palestinians are killed, among them 513 children. 513 dead children. But the dead children still have names. The film is about a Jewish person who has made a political journey from the Vietnam war to Gaza. This person is the paediatrician Henry Ascher, who lost his fathers entire family in the Holocaust.
The last 31 years, PeÅ Holmquist has filmed in Gaza, depicting the fate of its people in this often cruel world. Now Holmquist makes a personal reflection based on his many visits to Gaza, most recently after the three-week intense war with Israel during 2008-2009.
Dopo l'ultima aggressione israeliana sulla Striscia di Gaza, una volta cessati i bombardamenti, la realtà del conflitto scompare dai media. Il documentario è un viaggio a Gaza in cui, attraverso vari personaggi, conosciamo la violazione dei diritti umani che esiste quotidianamente nella Cisgiordania occupata e la situazione di blocco e di guerra in cui sta cercando di sopravvivere la popolazione palestinese nella Striscia di Gaza. È un viaggio attraverso le loro città, la loro gente e anche, in qualche modo, la loro storia sotto l'occupazione di Israele.
How mass protests on the Israel-Gaza border led to one of the deadliest days in a generation. One year later, a moment-by-moment investigation, drawing on exclusive interviews in Gaza and Israel and videos of the protests and bloodshed.