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August 1 2015 Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine
preview of a dream in Gaza video
video synopsis
"a dream in Gaza" was filmed in December-January 2015 in the Gaza Strip, approximately four months after the Israeli military offensive Operation Protective Edge, the third the civilian population have been subjected since the end of 2008.
The signs of the destructive fury are still there, intact and unmoving and seem to seek to frustrate any attempt to move towards the future. In the air there is an inexplicable mixture of war and life, a latent tension, like storm which could suddenly break, like a precarious balance between life and death.
An 18 year old boy dreams of freedom, the redemption of his own and his family's fate through Parkour, which he practices with passion and determination.
"a dream in Gaza" is the representation of a catastrophic and violent event but also of hope for a different life. Fahid represents a universal human condition, that of those who manage to oppose the most barbaric violence and the violation of their fundamental human rights with endurance, imagination and love of life.
The video opens with a series of close-ups of the protagonist, in his face the signs of the anguish and terror caused by the traumas suffered which, still unhealed, he relives in his memory. In the words that flow and in the images that follow emerge an awareness of the harshness of his existence but they also bear his vitality and determination in the struggle to realize his dream: a dream of freedom which is not an attempt to escape from reality but rather a representation of its possible transformation.
April 2015