AISHEEN [still alive in Gaza]
85 minutes | Qatar Switzerland | North American Premiere | Rating: PG
Shot a few weeks after the end of Israel’s January 2009 offensive, this sensitively crafted doc captures the human suffering and devastation wrought on Gaza’s Palestinian residents as they struggle daily to survive. “Where is the ghost town?” asks the little boy to the theme park attendant. “It’s there, right there. But it has been bombed. Do you want to see it?” With these words, Aisheen begins. The film is a compelling, impressionistic journey through a devastated Gaza after the war. And the ghost town? Gaza is the ghost town. Clowns trying to make children forget the bombing with balloons and make-up; a beached whale “as big as a building” picked clean in a matter of hours by hungry residents; a scrawny stuffed lion hanging limply in a zoo cage—these surreal scenes convey the absurdity of a nation living on the brink, seemingly forever.
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Co-presented with Toronto Palestine Film Festival.
Media Coverage
Torontoist (Capsule Review)
Director(s)
Nicolas Wadimoff
Producer(s)
Joëlle Bertossa
Executive Producer(s)
Fayçal Hassairi
Writer(s)
Nicolas Wadimoff
Béatrice Guelpa
Cinematographer(s)
Frank Rabel
Editor(s)
Karine Sudan
Composers(s)
DARG TEAM
