Rethink Rebuild Society invites you to a screening of Gaza (2019). Free from the cliché of news reportage, this screening is a beautiful portrait of Gaza’s ordinary people who attempt to lead meaningful lives.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate: 12A
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
Directed by: Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell
The film will be followed by open discussion. Please arrive on time as the screening will start at 7.15pm exactly.
The Film:
Free from the cliché of news reportage, this film is a portrait of Gaza’s ordinary people who attempt to lead meaningful lives beyond the rubble of ongoing conflict. ‘Gaza’ brings together an eloquent, resilient and courageous group of souls, whose struggle, resilience and sense of family goes to the very heart of humanity...a people whose lives are shaped by conflict but not defined by it.
Gaza may be battered and broken, but it remains alive with colour and intrigue, a people undefeated by their circumstances. The film brings together an eloquent, resilient, funny and courageous group of souls, on whose lives the world lens is often trained without ever capturing them in sharp focus.
“… showing ordinary people who courageously have to keep going somehow, in the grimmest of conditions, in a world where, as someone puts it, there is a “wall between the people of Gaza and life itself”. A young woman practises the cello, a young man records rap tracks, a theatre director rehearses a performance piece, a fisherman broods over the oppression of his industry. A sombre, angry film about a people under political siege” (The Guardian).
