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WITH HASAN IN GAZA DE KAMAL ALJAFARI

"I went in Gaza twenty-four years ago. This is my first film, which I have never made.
I recently found three MiniDV tapes that I shot in Gaza in the year 2000. This discovery reminded me of a trip I took to Gaza to search for a former prison mate I had met in 1989. I couldn’t find him. It was the first time I had watched this footage, forgotten for twenty-four years, which has now become a document of a life and a place that no longer exist.
On this journey, I found myself documenting life in the Gaza Strip.
WITH HASAN IN GAZA is a road trip across Gaza, from north to south, accompanied by Hasan, the man who hosted me." – Kamal Aljafari

Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker and artist whose work blends documentary, essay film, and experimental cinema. He is the recipient of major awards from FIDMarseille, DokuFest, and Visions du Réel, among others. A full retrospective of his work to date was held at IndieLisboa in 2024. He has received a fellowship from the Film Study Center-Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and from the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Columbia University (2024–2025).

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