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Opening Film: With Hasan in Gaza

dir. Kamal Aljafari
Palestine / Germany / France / Qatar
1h 46'

Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. What started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989, led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. A cinematic reflection on memory, loss and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again.

Kamal Aljafari is one of BIEFF’s most treasured filmmakers. Screening WITH HASAN IN GAZA is but a natural decision, given the urgency imposed by the genocide committed against the Palestinians, but also this film’s incredible tenderness in depicting a place that has currently ceased to be, as well as images of people who may well be no longer alive. Here, Aljafari continues his use of a unique cinematic device — the camera of the dispossessed, which he has theorized over the past 10 years — but not with the aim of hijacking images from third-party archives, but from his own: showing, in the strictest of senses, what the Palestinians in Gaza have been dispossessed of. (Flavia Dima)

Schedule

Monday, September 22nd, 19:00

Cinema Elvire Popesco
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Closing Film: Dry Leaf

dir. Alexandre Koberidze | Duration 3h 6'

Sports photographer Lisa vanishes without warning. She was last seen photographing rural football fields in remote Georgian villages. Her father, Irakli, unable to accept her disappearance, sets out on a journey to find her. He teams up with Levani, Lisa’s enigmatic best friend, and together they travel across the countryside, retracing her steps through quiet villages, meeting kind strangers, and speaking with children playing football along the way.

Opening Film: With Hasan in Gaza

dir. Kamal Aljafari | Duration 1h 46'

Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. What started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989, led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. A cinematic reflection on memory, loss and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again.

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