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With Hasan in Gaza

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Constructed from three MiniDV tapes shot in Gaza in 2001 and rediscovered years later, the film transforms recovered footage into a profound cinematic meditation on memory, loss, and the passage of time. Originally conceived as a search for a former prison mate from 1989, the film unfolds into an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. As the camera moves through Gaza's streets and landscapes, it records fleeting moments of everyday life--fragments of a reality now irreversibly altered. With Hasan in Gaza throws mainstream images of a people displaced into relief through the traces of absence bygone time evokes.

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Kamal Aljafari

Director

Kamal Aljafari

Writer

Kamal Aljafari

Producer

Kamal Aljafari

Cinematographer

Kamal Aljafari

Film Editor

Simon Fisher-Turner

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Eli Friedberg Slant Magazine 1d
3/4
The film is both a document of a precise historical moment and testament to the continuity of Palestinian memory and struggle. Go to Full Review Arron Kennon Sight & Sound Nov 4
With this crux – to film, or not to film – With Hasan in Gaza brilliantly centres the need to bear witness as no less than a matter of life and death, preservation and loss, liberation and occupation. Go to Full Review Namrata Joshi The New Indian Express Sep 1
Aljafari calls it “an homage to Gaza and its people” and a film about “the catastrophe, and the poetry that resists”. That alone makes it worth a view despite the--perhaps deliberate--choppy, jagged narrative and the coarseness to the filmmaking. Go to Full Review Amber Wilkinson Screen International Nov 11
A raw but poignant snapshot of Gaza during the Second Intifada. Go to Full Review Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Nov 4
3.5/5
The analysis could have included some kind of criticism or questioning, but this material...today serves as a historical record, a vindication of memory, and, in its own way, a tribute...[Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Marcelo Paredes Cinencuentro Oct 27
Its naturalness and rawness are devastating, precisely because the filmmaker knows what these images ultimately portend. It is a film that absorbs, disturbs, and, above all, endures. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Constructed from three MiniDV tapes shot in Gaza in 2001 and rediscovered years later, the film transforms recovered footage into a profound cinematic meditation on memory, loss, and the passage of time. Originally conceived as a search for a former prison mate from 1989, the film unfolds into an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. As the camera moves through Gaza's streets and landscapes, it records fleeting moments of everyday life--fragments of a reality now irreversibly altered. With Hasan in Gaza throws mainstream images of a people displaced into relief through the traces of absence bygone time evokes.
Director
Kamal Aljafari
Producer
Kamal Aljafari
Screenwriter
Kamal Aljafari
Distributor
The Cinema Guild
Production Co
Kamal Aljafari Productions
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Arabic
Release Date (Theaters)
May 29, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 52m