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Hernán Zin · 2014 · 1h5m
A poetic, visually stunning tribute to the children who work, play, dream and survive in the world’s largest open air prison.
Thursday, Nov. 13, 7:00pm
Born in Gaza
A poetic, visually stunning tribute to the children who work, play, dream and survive in the world's largest open air prison.
Admission
Free
BORN IN GAZA provides an intimate, deep look – leaving aside political debates – of how violence transforms the lives of ten children. A deeply human vision of the war and its consequences. The film ends three months after the end of the Israeli offensive, allowing us to see what has become of these children while highlighting their struggles to overcome the horrors suffered and regain some normalcy in their lives. Through observational footage and interviews, Hernán Zin provides, with sensitivity, individual stories that go far beyond news coverage of the events and offer children the opportunity to be heard. In doing so, he also provides space for dialogue and healing. ‘The situation is really complicated. We have a war every two years’, states 13 year old Mohamed. ‘I often think about our situation and I never see the end’.
After the screening, Karène Sanchez-Summerer and Mudar Al-Khufash will join Şirin Erensoy for a conversation on Palestinian solidarity and sovereignty, followed by an audience Q&A. Stay updated on upcoming Cinema Politica Screenings by following us on Instagram. We hope to see you there!
Karène Sanchez-Summerer is Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies. She is a historian of the Modern Middle East whose research and teaching focus on Christian Arab communities in and from the region. Karène’s work engages with the relational cultural and social history of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine, as well as with the experiences of minorities within and in diaspora from the Middle East.
Mudar Al-Khufash is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work merges art, activism, and pedagogy. His work explores implicit violence in infrastructures of coloniality, power, and heteronormativity. He is the founder and creative director of awāhm (@awham_magazine). Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Media Studies at the University of Groningen, where his research investigates the formation of Palestinian masculinities, care, and intimacy as they emerge through settler-colonial violence.
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