In an attempt to describe everyday life where people are struggling for the most basic human rights, Home Movies Gaza introduces us to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for a decline in civilization, finding perspective in a domesticity that is complicated, derelict, impossible to separate from its politics.
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Crop
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Untitled
Filmed in Algiers during the Arab Spring, it refers to the situation of women in the Arab world and questions the idea of revolution. Here,…
Film details
- Country of production
- Palestine
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
