Gaza’s women filmmakers turn pain into cinema as new academy launches
Summary
The second Gaza International Women’s Film Festival opened in al-Bureij alongside the launch of the Gaza Cinema Academy. It screened five documentaries made by Palestinian women, including films about hunger, disability, displacement and grief during the war in Gaza.Key Facts
- The festival used the slogan “Women Creating Life from Death.”
- The five documentaries were produced through a filmmaking diploma programme that began in March and included 25 young Palestinian women.
- Mona Abu Qass’s 11-minute film, A Sack of Flour, draws on her experience and depicts hunger, aid distribution dangers and loss in Gaza.
- Raghda al-Buhaisi’s directorial debut, Beyond Silence, follows a deaf artist whose studio was destroyed and whose parents and other relatives were killed.
- Soso: The Lifeline follows an orphaned child and his donkey as they help people survive.
- Remnants of Light follows a filmmaker dealing with the loss of her family and home.
- Dandana tells the story of a mother whose eight children were killed and how she copes with grief through Palestinian songs with surviving family members.
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