Free Political Film Screenings Cinema Politica is a project organized by Montréal-based non-profit überculture, and comprises a network of several local film exhibition series across Canada, Europe and the USA.

Cinema Politica at the Firehouse

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Woods Hole (Massachusetts)
Friday January 16, 2009
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Old Firehouse, 72 Water St. Woods Hole MA

Join us for an evening of documentary and discussion about the ongoing onslaught of Gaza. Donations will benefit medical relief to Palestine.

Gaza Strip

A human face to the ongoing tragedy that is the Middle East

James Longley / USA / 2002 / 72 min / Arabic with English subtitles

Gaza Strip follows a range of people and events following the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, including the first major armed incursion into "Area A" by IDF forces during this intifada. The film is filmed almost entirely in a verite style, presented without narration and with little explanation, focusing on ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians and pundits. More observation than political argument, Gaza Strip offers a rare look inside the stark realities of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military occupation.

“Gaza Strip” pushes the viewer headlong into the tumult of the Israeli-occupied Gaza, examining the lives and views of ordinary Palestinians.

The central character is Mohammed Hejazi, a 13-year-old paperboy in Gaza City, one of the young “stone-throwers” who risk their lives throwing rocks at Israeli tanks across the barbwire fences.