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With Hasan in Gaza

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A filmmaker's rediscovered footage from 2001 captures a journey through Gaza, guided by Hasan, while searching for an old prison companion. The tapes reveal intimate moments of Palestinian life during a pivotal time.

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Arron Kennon Sight & Sound Nov 4
With this crux – to film, or not to film – With Hasan in Gaza brilliantly centres the need to bear witness as no less than a matter of life and death, preservation and loss, liberation and occupation. Go to Full Review Namrata Joshi The New Indian Express Sep 1
Aljafari calls it “an homage to Gaza and its people” and a film about “the catastrophe, and the poetry that resists”. That alone makes it worth a view despite the--perhaps deliberate--choppy, jagged narrative and the coarseness to the filmmaking. Go to Full Review Amber Wilkinson Screen International Nov 11
A raw but poignant snapshot of Gaza during the Second Intifada. Go to Full Review Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Nov 4
3.5/5
The analysis could have included some kind of criticism or questioning, but this material...today serves as a historical record, a vindication of memory, and, in its own way, a tribute...[Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Marcelo Paredes Cinencuentro Oct 27
Its naturalness and rawness are devastating, precisely because the filmmaker knows what these images ultimately portend. It is a film that absorbs, disturbs, and, above all, endures. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Clotilde Chinnici Loud and Clear Reviews Oct 24
3.5
The largely unedited cut is not easy to watch and can admittedly become repetitive, but it is worth it for the unique story it portrays. As the director looks for his lost friend, the audience too joins his journey with Hasan through Gaza. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Kamal Aljafari

Director

Kamal Aljafari

Writer

Kamal Aljafari

Producer

Kamal Aljafari

Cinematographer

Kamal Aljafari

Film Editor

Simon Fisher-Turner

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With Hasan in Gaza

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Synopsis A filmmaker's rediscovered footage from 2001 captures a journey through Gaza, guided by Hasan, while searching for an old prison companion. The tapes reveal intimate moments of Palestinian life during a pivotal time.
Director
Kamal Aljafari
Producer
Kamal Aljafari
Screenwriter
Kamal Aljafari
Production Co
Kamal Aljafari Productions
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Arabic
Runtime
1h 46m