WITH HASAN IN GAZA
Germany, Palestine, French, Qatar | 2025 | 106 min | col.| Arabic
Gaza, 2001: a MiniDV camera, a journey, and a research project. Kamal Aljafari goes back to tapes recorded over twenty years earlier and then forgotten, intending to outline a map of the invisible: an atlas of what has been wiped out by war and genocide. “I went to Gaza 24 years ago. This is my first film, which I have never made” wrote the filmmaker. In With Hasan in Gaza, every frame is an involuntary document; every voice a life that cannot be archived. Accompanied by Hasan, a former prison mate of his father’s, we see long-gone roads, houses, and faces. This is not a film about absence, but persistence: about the ability of images to resist time, destruction, oblivion. Gaza is not only a theatre of war, but also a place where daily life has been interrupted. Refraining from commentary or pathos, Aljafari lets the gaze speak: a gaze that preserves without explaining. This is cinema of living memory, which demands that we take serious responsibility and a standpoint. (L.F.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 03 Nov 2025
- Time: 14:30
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Organizer
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Kamal Aljafari
Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker and artist. His films have screened at major festivals and museums, including Locarno, London, Viennale, and the Bienal de São Paulo. He has received prestigious awards from FIDMarseille, Pesaro, and Visions du Réel. Aljafari has taught at The New School and DFFB in Berlin. He was a Film Study Center fellow at Harvard and at Columbia University's Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
