Gaza Souvenirs

Realized by Samuel Albaric

• Images in the library in Paris, France (2008)
• Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF), United States (March 2008)
• Brooklyn International Film Festival, USA (May/ June 2008)
• Soleluna doc Fest in Palermo, Italy (July 2008)
• International festival of new generation cinema in Lyon, France (September 2008)
• Festival des libertés in Brussels, Belgium (October 2008)
• Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, United States (October 2008)
• Interviews Belfort International Film Festival, France (November 2008)
• FIPA, International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes in Biarritz, France (January 2009)
• Al Ard Doc from Sardinia, Italy (February 2011)

 

The film is a succession of phone calls between Wissam, a young Palestinian, and Sam, a young French director. Together they evoke the memories of a phantasmagorical Gaza where bakers seduce young girls and vegetable sellers take us into the fabulous world of Djinns.