Filmmaker Nashashibi presents Gaza as a place from myth: isolated, suspended in time, difficult to access and highly charged. The accompanying animation and a distinctive soundtrack add a fictive layer that reflects everyday harshness. As outsiders we remain conscious of our exotic perspective.
Also in this combined programme
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A Simple Story, Mine, Yours and M’s
The director, who was born in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, works out her personal history. Painful, yet not sentimental. -
Here There
Elegant minimal animation feels like a summer breeze from Croatia. A simple seaside sketch book evolves into abstractions full of shifting planes and -
An Inaccurate Distance
Bertani is a traveller of the mind, more than the body. He writes in more than 100 languages, but hardly ever leaves his home. Language… -
Escape Scenes
Julia Feyrer takes her sculptures for a ride across the city and lets the wind take them apart in this charming 16mm silent film.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
