Children smiling on a beach in Gaza in With Hasan in Gaza by Kamal Aljafari
Still from With Hasan in Gaza (2025), directed by Kamal Aljafari.
 
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With Hasan in Gaza

by Kamal Aljafari
A haunting reconstruction of MiniDV tapes from 2001, tracing history’s cyclical waves of violence against the Palestinian people.
2022  ·  1h46m  ·  France, Germany, Palestine, Qatar
Arabic
English subs
About the Film

Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. This footage now stands as a testament to a place and time that no longer exists. What began as a search for a former prison mate from 1989—a man lost to time and war—led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza, accompanied by Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. As the camera moves through Gaza’s streets and landscapes, it captures fleeting moments of everyday life—fragments of a reality now irreversibly altered. ‘With Hasan in Gaza’ transforms this forgotten footage into 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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Kamal Aljafari

Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian director and artist based in Germany. Lauded for his inventive approach to filmmaking, Aljafari has garnered international acclaim for his films which have been featured at venues and festivals including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, the Berlinale, and the Viennale. In 2021, he received special recognition at Brazil’s Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival, where the Focus Section was dedicated to his oeuvre.

 
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