Filmed by ordinary Gazan citizens, this Storyville documentary tells a tale of extraordinary human resilience
series, people were constantly looking up. They watched rockets flare and squinted at planes, some dropping bombs, others leaflets. They followed aid packages, floating serenely on parachutes through bright blue skies. Standing on land they had been told they must leave, they were at the mercy of what rained down from above. At a camp inwas an essential account from civilian Palestinian voices.
There was Aya, a law graduate whose plans to study abroad were on hold as she found herself repeatedly displaced, and Khalid, a 36-year-old father of five and award-winning physiotherapist, now volunteering with paramedics. Youth worker Adam was desperately seeking passage to Egypt with his younger sisters after the death of their father from Parkinson’s.
There was a sense among the Gazan contributors that the world does not really know what is happening there: “No one cares about us,” said Aya. According to Reporters Without Borders, more than 130 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces while the region remains closed to almost all foreign reporters and plagued by communication blackouts.
The film’s final captions told us that a year since they started filming, Adam has made it to Cairo but Aya, Khalid, Aseel and their families are still in Gaza, desperately searching for a sliver of their homeland the bombs cannot reach. They are still alive – for now.
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