Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. This footage is now a testament to a place and time that no longer exists. What started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989—a man lost to time and war— led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. A cinematic reflection on memory, loss and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again.
Kamal Aljafari
Palestinian filmmaker and artist. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and has held teaching positions at The New School in New York and the Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie in Berlin. He was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University and most recently a fellowship at The Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris (2024–2025). As from September 2025, he is a resident at Académie des beaux-arts x Cité internationale des arts in Paris. His installation ‘The Camera of the Dispossessed’ was shown at the 35th Bienal de São Paulo in 2023. Aljafari was also honored at IndieLisboa 2024 with a full retrospective of his work at the Portuguese Cinematheque as well as in Madrid’s Spanish Cinematheque in 2025. The feature film ‘A Fidai Film’ (2024, selected at Seminci) was shown in over a hundred festivals and won 15 international awards. ‘With Hasan in Gaza’ (2025) had its world premiere in Locarno, where it won the Europa Cinemas Label award.
DIRECTOR
Kamal Aljafari
SCREENPLAY
Kamal Aljafari
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Kamal Aljafari
EDITOR
Kamal Aljafari
SOUND
Kamal Aljafari, Jochen Jezussek
MUSIC
Simon Fisher Turner, Attila Faravelli, Lucy Railton
