What does an ordinary day in Gaza look like? Striplife starts nonetheless with an extraordinary event: dozens of manta rays have washed up on Gaza City beach. A miraculous catch that livens up the city where Antar is preparing to record a song, Noor is getting ready for his working day as a Watania TV reporter, teenagers in the Khan Younis camp are limbering up for their daily parkour... While Jabber, who lives in the “buffer zone” 400 metres from Israel, is tending his fields... But a few scattered gunshots resonate in the distance, with the slow dance of the Israeli armoured jeeps blocking the horizon. The skill of this collective of Italian filmmakers that made this immersive film, consists of distilling the signs of the blockade into images: Moemen, a professional photographer, getting around in a wheelchair after being mutilated during Operation “Cast Lead” in 2008, a fishing boat recently riddled with bullets... And a striking sequence showing a Gaza supermarket brimming with Israeli produce... and then suddenly plunged into darkness due to a power cut. It seems that no violence, even symbolic, will be spared for this people who are being kept on life support.
Emmanuel Chicon, Visions du Réel
Country: Italia
Year: 2013
Running time: 64'
Language: arabo, inglese
Subtitles: italiano, inglese
Genre: fiction
Produced by: Teleimmagini, Vivo Film
Festival: novembre 2013 Torino Film Festival (Concorso Italiana.Doc), IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Docs for Sale), gennaio 2014 Sala Doc (Panorama), febbraio 2014 Al Cuore dei Conflitti (Panorama), Aprile 2014 Visions du Réel (Etat d'Esprit, Regard Neuf), maggio 2014 Festival di Cinema Africano d'Asia e d'America Latina (Concorso Extr'A), DOK.FEST Munich (Dok.Horizonte), luglio 2014 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (Documentary), Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille - FIDM (Doc Alliance), Festa di Cinema del Reale (Panorama), settembre 2014 Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival - SIEFF, Napoli Film Festival (Concorso Schermo Napoli Doc), DMZ Korean International Documentary Film Festival (Global Vision), ottobre 2014 Terra di Tutti Film Festival (Focus Gaza), International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava (Doc Alliance), Gli Occhiali di Gandhi (Panorama), Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (Competencia), DokFestival Leipzig (Doc Alliance), DOC Lisboa (Doc Alliance), novembre 2014 CPH:DOX.
Premi: novembre 2013 Torino Film Festival (Menzione Speciale "Gli Occhiali di Gandi", Premio AVANTI!; Premio Speciale della Giuria Italiana.doc), maggio 2014 Festival di Cinema Africano d'Asia e d'America Latina (Menzione Speciale Extr'A), settembre 2014 Napoli Film Festival (Menzione Speciale Documentario) ottobre 2014 Terra di Tutti Film Festival (Menzione Speciale).
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