Germany
Documentary

Nominated for European Film 2026, European Documentary 2026

Three mini DV 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 inmate 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. As the camera moves through Gaza’s streets and landscapes, it records fleeting moments of everyday life – fragments of a reality now irreversibly altered. WITH HASAN IN GAZA transforms this forgotten footage into 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.

Written & directed by: Kamal Aljafari
Produced by: Kamal Aljafari, Flavia Mazzarino
Cinematography: Kamal Aljafari
Editing: Kamal Aljafari
Original Score: Simon Fisher Turner, Attila Faravelli

Statement of the director:
An tribute to Gaza and its people, to everything that was erased and that came back to me in this urgent moment of Palestinian existence, or non-existence. It is a film about the catastrophe, and the poetry that resists.
This is my first film, which I have never made.

Production:
Kamal Aljafari Productions
https://kamalaljafari.art/