METROGRAPH IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RUN OF WITH HASAN IN GAZA
STARTING MAY 29.
In 2001, filmmaker Aljafari, briefly imprisoned in his teens by the Israeli Occupation during the first Palestinian Intifada of 1989, set out on a north-to-south tour of Gaza in search of a man he’d met while behind bars, bringing along a local guide, Hasan, and a MiniDV camera with which to document his journey. Some two decades later, Aljafari revisited the footage he’d captured, and from it sprang this plaintive, lyrical travelogue, a loving record of cities, neighborhoods, and gathering places since reduced to rubble, of people whose current fates are unknown. Not a work of “nostalgia” for bygone times—incoming ordinance was a reality a quarter century ago, and the subjects of With Hasan in Gaza all seem to have their stories of savage raids and worse—but a work that brims with its maker’s affection for all that he sees and shows. A Cinema Guild release.
Writer/director Kamal Aljafari in person for opening weekend.