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Dear friend.

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I'm writing you a letter that I hope
you will read while I'm still alive.

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I wish you a happy and beautiful life,

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better than mine is now.

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I'd like to share with you
my daily struggles:

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destruction, ruin, and death

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are consuming everything around me.

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It's 6 am
and I still haven't shut my eyes.

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My body is tired

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because of the noise of planes, rockets,

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ambulances, and even
the sound of my own thoughts,

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the feeling that danger could come
to my friends, my loved ones, or myself.

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Sleeping in a tent
is truly exhausting.

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Every morning I wait
in line for the public toilets,

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listening to the stories
of refugee women.

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Then I go back to my tent

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to put on makeup to hide
the signs of fatigue and insomnia

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that have appeared on my face.

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I drink a cup of tea but the taste
has become bland and foreign to me.

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It used to accompany me
gently in the mornings

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and in my beautiful thoughts.

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Then I put on my dress to go out,

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the one that almost cost me my life
when I went to get it

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from the house in Abasan Kbira
East of Khan Yunis

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after we, along with over
a million others, became refugees

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at the Egyptian border.

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Today we're all heading to Abassan.

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We're going because...

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I'm visiting our house,

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which we thought been destroyed

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but by God's grace it's only
partially destroyed

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but it's no longer the home
we used to know

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By God's grace, it's still standing.

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I hope it stays that way and that we'll
return one day, at the end of the war.

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There's a lot of mess,
I don't recognize my home anymore.

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I forgot to tell you about my cat Reema.

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She refused to follow me
and stayed hidden in the house.

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God, how I miss her, my home,
and my old life there.

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You know, I miss my appearance
and my femininity.

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Look at what I used to be
and what I have become.

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Let me tell you about our bustling market.

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We're looking for some pieces of bread

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which is more expensive than
in Paris or London.

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Even the canned goods
are often expired.

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Diseases and epidemics
have spread.

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People who don't die
in bombings

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die from disease, hunger,
or oppression.

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It is now 4 o'clock,
in this timezone of war

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I'm coming back from volunteering

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at the service for refugee women.

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I can only think about
what might happen next.

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Which makes me remember
the worst from the past wars.

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Especially the war of 2014,

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when they bombed my house,

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killed my father and 17 people
from my family.

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Despite the silence of the camp
and my need to sleep,

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the overcrowding and lack
of privacy in the tent

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and outside make everything uncomfortable.

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But with the presence
of my little devil Adam,

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I feel loved, safe,

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and I regain my hope for the future.

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You cannot bear to listen to the news,
but you cannot not listen either

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because maybe tonight, we'll receive
news of a ceasefire.

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Unfortunately,
tonight's news

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is of the bombing
of my sister Nora's house

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and the death of her whole family
except for her daughter Ghena,

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who remained alive
for two days under the rubble.

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Everyone around me is in sorrow
and suffering

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but they hold on to hope
of returning to their destroyed homes.

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They're attached to their land
and their identity

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and refuse to relive
the scenario of 1948.

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Dear unknown friend,

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Of course, I don't know you,

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and don't know where or when
you'll read this letter.

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I forget to tell you,
in the day I await the night,

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either to sleep or
to escape from this reality.

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and at night I await the morning
to feel safe.

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It's a strange contrast
between day and night.

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I'm attaching to this letter
an electronic memory.

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It's a video of my life.

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Now that's the only way
to communicate with the world

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outside of this place on the globe.

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This corner of the world,
which today is missing

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all means of communication
and transportation.

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Believe me, my friend, I had
a beautiful life in a beautiful city.

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I love it for itself
and for those who live there.

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My advice to you: enjoy life.

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Because life is beautiful

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and war is ugly, truly ugly.

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Omar!

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Can anyone hear me?

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Omar!

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Nour?

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Why did you come here? I told you
to stay with your grandmother!

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I want to help you find dad.

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Help me? Come on.

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You want to help me?

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Keep calling your father.
God willing, he'll answer you.

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Stay here, don't move.

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Omar!

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Who are you? What are you doing here?

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I'm gathering firewood.
Who are you? What do you want?

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Who am I?
I'm the owner of the house!

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Your house? This is where I gather wood,
I come here every day.

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I've never seen you.

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Okay, just leave, get out of here!

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- Come on, Uncle!
- I'm coming!

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- Did your dad answer?
- Yes, but the phone died.

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- Are you sure dad answered you?
- Yes.

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- What did he say?
- Hello.

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- Did he sound okay?
- No.

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Okay, that's enough. Stay here.

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Wood guy!

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- Wood guy!
- What do you want?

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- Wait a minute!
- Yes, what?

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When I yelled at you, I was lost.
My brother is alive!

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He's been under the rubble
for two days, but he's alive.

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How could he be alive?
Are you feeling okay?

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It's impossible that he's
still alive, how do you know?

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His daughter spoke to him, he said "Hello"
but my phone's out of battery.

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Call civil defense or
give me your phone and I'll do it.

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They won't come out here.

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They're digging about a hundred martyrs
out of the house over there.

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They told me they had
a bulldozer! Omar! Omar!

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Listen to me! Listen to me!
They're out of gasoline!

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Take this!
You lift there and I'll lift here.

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It's getting too dangerous here,
take the girl and let's go.

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We'll come back tomorrow.

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We'll come back! We'll come back!

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Nour. We. We have to leave.

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Let's go, Nour.

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Nour! Do you feel that your father
is still alive?

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- Nour! Let's leave here.
- My father is still alive.

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I know he's still alive.
I promise we'll come back tomorrow.

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Scene 35, take one.

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Three. Two. One. Action.

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I am Ahmad Hassona from Gaza.

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I have always dreamed
of becoming a director.

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I know that's a distant
and unlikely dream.

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Say you want to shoot a movie,
how do you make it happen?

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And where do you screen it?

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There is not a single cinema
in our country.

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What drives you to confront
our society and its leaders?

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I have made many documentaries.

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But I wanted to direct fictions
that the whole world would watch.

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I struggled and worked day and night

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I wished there were 48 hours in the day

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so I could write
and assemble my team

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I found actors who shared my goal

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and the dream of screening
this film in major festivals

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of traveling and
walking on the red carpet.

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After four and a half years,
the film was finally finished.

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It was selected for a festival
and won an award.

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Neither my team nor I could travel
with the film to receive the award.

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We remained imprisoned
in Gaza, deprived of our dreams.

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The title of the film is "Istrupya,"
which means "Senseless loss."

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Our greatest loss was
not being able to see the film

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in front of the audience
on the big screen.

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But I learned a lot and became
even more committed to my dream.

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My life became a marathon.

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I was running after cinema,
searching for films and funding.

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Now my life has became
a different kind of marathon.

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Now I am running to save
my family's lives and my own.

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I run, hoping

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to find food and drink
for my children

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who flee the bombings
from one house to another.

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Ahmad!

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Are you okay?

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Where are you?

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Get out of there!

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Are you okay?

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Come, come.

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I struggle to endure
the things I see and hear.

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Everything that is happening to us.
Everything we are going through.

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I have just lost my older brother

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in a random bombing

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next to his house.

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What?

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The whole tower?

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Collapsed?

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At that moment, I felt
death catching up with us.

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Our only chance of survival
was luck. Our only chance

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of escaping the rubble,
the bombed houses, the ruins of the city.

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Nowhere in Gaza is safe,
especially in the north

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where I currently live.

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Here, no humanitarian aid,
nor rescue,

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nor civil protection arrives.
All that comes are

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bombs, fear, stress,
and insecurity.

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Now I wish there were
only 12 hours in the day.

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Time has become my enemy.

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It offers me no respite.

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My only priority is staying alive

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running, gathering wood
to make fire,

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to cook and eat
whatever you can find.

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Forgive me, cinema.

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I will put the camera aside
and run with the others.

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among the destroyed houses

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For the moment I will abandon
you, cinema, who

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shows the hunger of a people.

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Today is the first time I have heard
the sound of a civilian airplane.

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They call it the aid plane.

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Planes fly overhead
and the people follow them.

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Including me,

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to feed my children.

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Are they coming?

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Up there.

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Boys!

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Run!

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There! That's it.

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Give me a bag!

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All this flour on the ground.

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Isn't this tragic?

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- As you can see, we're picking up
flour and sand.

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- That's all we have left to do.

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We pick up whatever
we find on the ground.

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We have to eat.

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Many emotions, thoughts
that I can't express

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about this war,
which has ground us down.

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Many details,
difficult to hear.

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All I can say is:

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Cinema, forgive me.

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Why do I always have a bag of clothes?

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Because we might be bombed,
or have to leave

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or there could be a leaflet drop

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telling us to evacuate,
or a ground invasion.

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You grab the bag and run.

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One Thursday night at 1:07

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I wake up, it seems like

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the house is fine

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and suddenly the whole house
is in darkness.

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Our things are flying everywhere.
The cat flies with his basket,

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People surrounded by debris everywhere.

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You can’t do anything, there's
no time to cry, to react. It's impossible.

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In that moment all I want
is to save myself.

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I get out, I run. A neighbour grabs me
and takes me into his house.

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I scream as if it were a dream,
an unreal nightmare.

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Since that day, whenever I wake up

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I see myself sitting in my house
and I imagine…

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I imagine myself at home.

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Sleeping in the living room

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even though it’s very hot.

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Since we’ve been here,

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sometimes I go to bed early
because I am afraid that suddenly

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even though the house seems fine,

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the darkness will come back
and it will start again.

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Do you know where the others are?

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Mum!

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I’m always trying to keep busy.

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Painting a lot, studying,
reading and writing.

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I do all this to relieve the stress.

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I am alive.

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I am alive.

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There are always drones
making a buzzing sound.

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They are always above our heads
when we sleep, study, dance,…

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When I dance, I always put on my headphones
and turn on the music.

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Suddenly, I have a flashback

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my brain stops because of the drones.

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My thoughts scatter.

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So you take refuge in your headphones.

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Where should we go?

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Are you alone, or are there
people in the street?

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We left the park and
we want to go to another street.

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Wait.

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Oh, my God.

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Should we go to Khalil's?

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Go to Khalil's.

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How can we get there? Is it safe?

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Go to Khalil's.

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With God's help, go quickly.

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We're leaving Farah's place.

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Come back, come back.

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Go into any house,
get inside.

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Why did you go out under the bombs?

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Walk, take your brother's hand.

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What's wrong, Yasmine?

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Why did you go outside?

00:25:58.336 --> 00:26:00.096
Are you there?

00:26:00.696 --> 00:26:02.536
We're at the top of the street.

00:26:06.176 --> 00:26:08.936
God protect us.

00:26:16.656 --> 00:26:18.136
Quickly, quickly.

00:26:18.336 --> 00:26:20.736
Get into the first house.

00:26:21.056 --> 00:26:22.376
We're in front of Khalil's.

00:26:22.896 --> 00:26:23.736
Have you arrived?

00:26:26.336 --> 00:26:28.616
-They're not here.
-Why?

00:26:30.176 --> 00:26:32.296
Did they go out?

00:26:36.216 --> 00:26:38.616
If Khalil's family isn't there,
go back home.

00:26:39.136 --> 00:26:41.096
Maybe the door is open.

00:26:41.696 --> 00:26:43.176
Shahin, open the door.

00:26:44.456 --> 00:26:45.936
Open the door.

00:26:49.856 --> 00:26:52.216
Yasmine what's happening?

00:26:55.576 --> 00:26:57.456
We're in Khalil's house.

00:26:57.976 --> 00:27:01.736
And I'm the idiot who let you go out.

00:27:03.136 --> 00:27:04.456
We're at Khalil's.

00:27:05.056 --> 00:27:06.456
Get in, get inside.

00:27:06.896 --> 00:27:09.936
There is no strength or power
but from God.

00:27:41.296 --> 00:27:44.176
Dear God, what can I do about this war?

00:27:45.576 --> 00:27:48.416
Nothing has ever stopped me from
doing stand-up.

00:27:51.336 --> 00:27:53.336
Even the war.

00:27:54.376 --> 00:27:55.656
War or no war

00:27:56.616 --> 00:27:59.216
I will take my shower and do the show.

00:28:52.176 --> 00:28:54.816
Damn, look at that queue.

00:28:56.536 --> 00:29:00.656
It doesn't matter.
Even if I have to wait all day,

00:29:03.376 --> 00:29:07.736
I need to take my shower before the show.

00:30:00.176 --> 00:30:02.856
Hello? Yes, I'm coming.

00:30:04.056 --> 00:30:06.896
Yes, I finally took my shower.
Yes, I'm coming.

00:30:07.656 --> 00:30:09.376
Get ready. I'm coming.

00:30:10.376 --> 00:30:12.456
Ok. See you in a bit.

00:30:19.816 --> 00:30:23.416
I will do the best stand-up ever.

00:30:25.656 --> 00:30:26.456
God.

00:30:27.336 --> 00:30:28.376
Amazing.

00:30:29.416 --> 00:30:30.736
It's not just that

00:30:31.216 --> 00:30:32.856
I'm going to do stand-up

00:30:33.136 --> 00:30:35.736
And where?
In the place most dear to me.

00:30:35.896 --> 00:30:37.896
In Al Nuseirat.

00:30:45.896 --> 00:30:48.096
Oh. Nuseirat, a pain in the heart

00:30:49.216 --> 00:30:51.096
More than 200 dead in one hour.

00:30:54.136 --> 00:30:56.336
I'm coming to perform.

00:30:57.536 --> 00:30:59.536
There's no performance stronger than this.

00:31:34.216 --> 00:31:34.976
Thank you.

00:32:53.216 --> 00:32:55.376
We must not block the arm,

00:32:56.816 --> 00:33:00.656
because afterwards we need
to be able to move it.

00:33:05.656 --> 00:33:08.936
Since we became refugees,
I haven't seen my friends again.

00:33:14.936 --> 00:33:16.696
When the bombing starts,

00:33:18.296 --> 00:33:19.376
my mother panics in the camp

00:33:19.976 --> 00:33:23.136
She drops everything she's carrying,
letting it fall and break

00:33:23.856 --> 00:33:26.896
When she's inside, she rushes outside.

00:33:27.336 --> 00:33:29.656
When she's outside, she runs back in.

00:33:30.176 --> 00:33:32.656
She breaks everything.

00:33:40.376 --> 00:33:42.696
When the bombs fell, we fled the house.

00:33:43.296 --> 00:33:45.536
We didn't know where to go,
we stayed in the middle of the street.

00:33:45.656 --> 00:33:47.736
All the buildings were falling down.

00:33:48.656 --> 00:33:51.216
An ambulance told us to leave the street.

00:33:51.536 --> 00:33:53.656
Our mother grabbed us
and we started running.

00:33:53.976 --> 00:33:55.896
My little brother is one year old.

00:33:56.696 --> 00:33:59.656
He can only say "daddy"

00:33:59.856 --> 00:34:04.176
and make the sound of an ambulance.

00:34:18.696 --> 00:34:20.216
My mother said to my aunt

00:34:20.616 --> 00:34:22.656
"I want to write my children's names
on their arms."

00:34:22.816 --> 00:34:24.216
While she was doing it

00:34:24.416 --> 00:34:26.016
I asked her why.

00:34:26.136 --> 00:34:29.576
She started crying.

00:34:33.576 --> 00:34:38.696
When mom wrote on me, she was crying.

00:34:41.096 --> 00:34:42.016
And so was I.

00:34:50.176 --> 00:34:52.496
My mother also wrote my name on my body.

00:34:53.456 --> 00:34:56.216
If they bomb us, we'll be in pieces.

00:34:57.016 --> 00:34:59.016
I don't want them to write on my body.

00:35:00.536 --> 00:35:03.616
I don't want them to gather my pieces.

00:35:10.136 --> 00:35:11.656
What have we decided
to make the film about?

00:35:11.816 --> 00:35:13.456
Writing on the bodies

00:35:13.616 --> 00:35:16.936
No! The story of my brother
and the ambulance.

00:35:17.216 --> 00:35:18.816
The writing on the bodies is better.

00:35:19.016 --> 00:35:20.496
And you Hassan, what do you think?

00:35:20.696 --> 00:35:23.176
Do what you want, as long as I'm the hero.

00:35:28.656 --> 00:35:34.056
When my mother wrote our names
on my brother's and my body

00:35:37.136 --> 00:35:39.336
I couldn't sleep.

00:35:40.496 --> 00:35:42.136
I ended up rubbing it off.

00:35:43.416 --> 00:35:47.016
I wanted t o rub off my brother's.
He asked me why,

00:35:47.136 --> 00:35:48.816
I told him "mom wanted me too"

00:35:49.136 --> 00:35:51.096
so you can sleep

00:35:51.136 --> 00:35:54.816
because I know you're very sensitive.

00:35:56.976 --> 00:35:59.136
Make a small movement
and then take a picture.

00:35:59.296 --> 00:36:00.176
And take your hand away.

00:36:00.656 --> 00:36:02.296
No. That's too much.

00:36:02.936 --> 00:36:03.976
We start here.

00:36:05.136 --> 00:36:07.656
No, you can't move it like that.

00:36:07.816 --> 00:36:10.736
You move him, you take your hand away
and you tell him to take the photo.

00:36:12.056 --> 00:36:13.056
Move him.

00:36:15.736 --> 00:36:16.936
Photo. Take a photo.

00:36:24.616 --> 00:36:25.776
Take a photo.

00:36:32.856 --> 00:36:33.656
Take a photo.

00:36:42.456 --> 00:36:44.416
Now, we're going to zoom in,

00:36:45.096 --> 00:36:46.776
you need to move the camera
from here downwards.

00:36:48.136 --> 00:36:50.736
Slowly.

00:36:51.456 --> 00:36:52.816
Zoom in a little more.

00:36:54.736 --> 00:36:59.696
Like that we get
a close-up on his face.

00:37:18.936 --> 00:37:21.856
Move aside and let me out.

00:37:25.656 --> 00:37:27.496
Mom wrote on my arm.

00:37:28.136 --> 00:37:31.336
She's afraid for us because of the planes.

00:37:31.656 --> 00:37:33.576
If they bomb us and kill us

00:37:33.696 --> 00:37:34.936
we'll be identified.

00:37:35.616 --> 00:37:39.176
from our names written on our bodies.

00:37:39.936 --> 00:37:42.216
Are mom and dad afraid of the planes?

00:37:42.776 --> 00:37:44.336
And you? Are you scared?

00:37:47.656 --> 00:37:49.456
I don't like ambulances.

00:39:04.936 --> 00:39:06.136
Why are you rubbing it off?

00:39:06.416 --> 00:39:07.976
Mom wrote it

00:39:08.816 --> 00:39:11.016
in case we die.

00:39:12.456 --> 00:39:15.336
I'll erase it for you so you can sleep.

00:39:17.696 --> 00:39:19.536
Ever since mom wrote it

00:39:20.416 --> 00:39:22.616
I've been having nightmares.

00:44:07.616 --> 00:44:08.936
Give me the rock, Maya.

00:44:11.416 --> 00:44:12.656
Give it to me, my darling.

00:44:14.296 --> 00:44:15.296
Give me one.

00:44:17.416 --> 00:44:18.176
One more.

00:44:23.136 --> 00:44:25.336
I'm going to get some water

00:44:25.496 --> 00:44:27.736
If I find some, I'll charge my phone

00:44:28.456 --> 00:44:30.136
and see if there's any bread,

00:44:30.176 --> 00:44:33.296
and while I'm at it, I'll see
if I can find some food.

00:44:33.816 --> 00:44:34.656
Goodbye.

00:45:26.336 --> 00:45:27.136
There's no more?

00:46:21.656 --> 00:46:23.456
Is there a space to charge my phone here?

00:46:30.056 --> 00:46:32.336
-Is there any chance of charging it?
-Give it to me, I'll check.

00:46:32.616 --> 00:46:33.616
Come back in an hour.

00:46:33.936 --> 00:46:35.776
Keep it, I'll be back in an hour.

00:46:36.416 --> 00:46:38.135
Alright, come back later.

00:46:38.536 --> 00:46:39.976
Take care of it.

00:47:09.056 --> 00:47:09.816
Alright.

00:47:10.496 --> 00:47:12.456
Too bad for the bread today.

00:47:13.056 --> 00:47:13.856
Oh well.

00:47:42.976 --> 00:47:44.016
No more water?

00:48:00.416 --> 00:48:01.976
Hello.

00:48:02.936 --> 00:48:05.056
Sorry, there's no way to charge it.

00:48:05.296 --> 00:48:07.416
- Not possible?
- No.

00:48:08.816 --> 00:48:10.656
Any space left?

00:48:12.656 --> 00:48:13.456
All taken.

00:48:14.216 --> 00:48:15.056
Thanks.

00:48:16.536 --> 00:48:17.296
Goodbye.

00:48:24.656 --> 00:48:25.216
- Hello
- Hello

00:48:26.456 --> 00:48:27.296
Professor Ali?

00:48:27.696 --> 00:48:29.056
I was one of your students
two years ago.

00:48:31.056 --> 00:48:33.736
- That's right, that's right.
- Do you need anything?

00:48:35.136 --> 00:48:36.176
No thank you, my friend,

00:48:36.496 --> 00:48:38.136
I have everything I need.

00:48:38.216 --> 00:48:40.256
But if you need anything,

00:48:40.496 --> 00:48:41.256
I'm here.

00:48:41.736 --> 00:48:43.056
Thank you, my friend.

00:51:28.536 --> 00:51:31.536
Here lies Kamal Youssef
Teacher, Martyred 12/01/2024

00:52:41.256 --> 00:52:43.616
On the 11th of November 2023

00:52:44.495 --> 00:52:45.736
it got too dangerous.

00:52:46.496 --> 00:52:49.776
We decided to leave Gaza,

00:52:50.136 --> 00:52:51.176
and head North.

00:52:59.616 --> 00:53:01.736
My mother said to take
only the essentials.

00:53:02.136 --> 00:53:05.736
We would have to walk a lot
and could not be overburdened.

00:53:07.816 --> 00:53:09.576
I looked at my bookshelf.

00:53:10.056 --> 00:53:12.856
What is heavier than my grief?

00:53:14.136 --> 00:53:15.696
I didn’t know which books to take.

00:53:16.816 --> 00:53:19.096
The ones I had read and cherished

00:53:19.656 --> 00:53:24.576
or the ones that might
lighten my days.

00:53:26.936 --> 00:53:28.656
I took nothing.

00:53:29.536 --> 00:53:31.576
We didn’t want to overburden ourselves.

00:53:33.856 --> 00:53:35.136
Yet I took three suitcases,

00:53:35.655 --> 00:53:37.856
heavier than any books.

00:53:40.696 --> 00:53:43.256
I still remember that moment

00:53:43.816 --> 00:53:46.416
as we walked under the sun,

00:53:47.056 --> 00:53:48.776
past the soldiers and

00:53:49.136 --> 00:53:51.256
how I carried that heavy burden

00:53:51.576 --> 00:53:54.856
because we couldn't get tired
or drop a single thing.

00:53:55.135 --> 00:53:58.296
I’m very surprised that we survived.

00:54:02.736 --> 00:54:05.216
It's as if those days
are no longer part of my life.

00:54:05.656 --> 00:54:08.296
One strange dream follows another,
and wakes me up.

00:54:08.976 --> 00:54:12.656
It's as if I were living in my books,
guilty of leaving them behind.

00:54:13.136 --> 00:54:14.656
Especially 'The Woman from Tantoria'.

00:54:15.656 --> 00:54:18.656
It’s the first thing
I should have taken

00:54:18.936 --> 00:54:21.136
but I felt it would bring bad luck.

00:54:22.016 --> 00:54:25.216
Leaving Gaza in a crowd

00:54:25.496 --> 00:54:27.696
reminds me of what happens in the book

00:54:28.176 --> 00:54:31.296
when they were forced to leave
the village of Tantura,

00:54:32.176 --> 00:54:34.336
when the occupation forced them to flee,

00:54:34.696 --> 00:54:38.096
leaving all their belongings behind,

00:54:38.456 --> 00:54:40.336
in 1948.

00:54:41.096 --> 00:54:43.816
I didn't take it because
in the book they couldn’t return.

00:54:44.136 --> 00:54:45.776
And I want to return.

00:54:47.176 --> 00:54:48.776
I feel like I’m in a book.

00:54:49.175 --> 00:54:51.336
I miss the sea, like Ruqqaya does.

00:54:51.696 --> 00:54:53.856
Ruqqaya, the woman in the novel,
a daughter of the sea

00:54:54.096 --> 00:54:55.576
was forced from her village.

00:54:56.096 --> 00:54:57.456
We are the same.

00:54:57.856 --> 00:55:01.536
Who am I? I'm a daughter of the sea,
forced to become a refugee

00:55:02.256 --> 00:55:03.336
I miss the sea.

00:55:05.136 --> 00:55:07.496
I am Ala'a. Why have I become Ruqqaya?

00:55:07.776 --> 00:55:11.416
Who decided to trap me inside the book

00:55:12.616 --> 00:55:14.016
until the sky freezes

00:55:14.136 --> 00:55:19.536
and to make me live every day away from
my city of Gaza, my sea, and my books?

00:55:22.456 --> 00:55:24.056
Ruqqaya grew up far from her home,

00:55:24.296 --> 00:55:26.096
she died oppressed

00:55:26.576 --> 00:55:27.855
and never returned.

00:55:29.216 --> 00:55:33.096
When I think back to mother saying
"don't overburden yourself"

00:55:33.216 --> 00:55:35.776
the instruction that made me
leave all my books behind

00:55:36.256 --> 00:55:37.936
I catch myself laughing.

00:55:39.656 --> 00:55:42.656
What is heavier than oppression?

00:55:43.336 --> 00:55:46.936
How could I have thought for an instant
that my books weighed more?

00:56:41.816 --> 00:56:43.136
What happened ?

00:56:46.616 --> 00:56:49.096
How come I woke up in a body bag?

00:56:53.736 --> 00:56:55.296
How did I end up in this bag?

00:56:56.536 --> 00:56:59.416
What country? What life?

00:57:07.296 --> 00:57:09.616
What happened to me yesterday?

00:57:11.256 --> 00:57:13.376
Remember what you did yesterday.

00:57:15.616 --> 00:57:18.616
Yesterday,
I was walking down the street.

00:57:19.896 --> 00:57:22.616
I was looking at our life,
what it had become.

00:57:31.616 --> 00:57:33.536
There I met my friend

00:57:34.256 --> 00:57:35.816
We sat on the edge of the camp

00:57:36.375 --> 00:57:37.816
with no work, no occupation.

00:57:38.416 --> 00:57:40.576
We were happy to still be alive.

00:57:42.656 --> 00:57:45.576
God, where were we, and where are we?

00:57:53.935 --> 00:57:56.376
Then, I chopped wood feverishly.

00:57:58.136 --> 00:58:00.016
I completely destroyed it.

00:58:01.696 --> 00:58:03.616
I took out all my frustrations on it.

00:58:05.976 --> 00:58:08.616
We cooked, ate

00:58:16.296 --> 00:58:20.496
and then Karim, what did you do?

00:58:21.896 --> 00:58:23.416
I went to see the sea.

00:58:36.656 --> 00:58:38.416
Nothing remains of this city,

00:58:39.016 --> 00:58:40.016
except the sea.

00:58:46.456 --> 00:58:50.096
That being said,
I returned to my tent.

00:58:51.376 --> 00:58:53.056
I was exhausted.

00:58:53.816 --> 00:58:55.176
I wanted to sleep a little.

00:58:56.616 --> 00:58:58.936
I had neither mattress, nor pillow,

00:58:59.896 --> 00:59:00.896
nor blanket.

00:59:02.616 --> 00:59:04.136
Leaving our homes,

00:59:04.496 --> 00:59:06.656
we couldn't take anything with us.

00:59:08.056 --> 00:59:10.416
I see myself leaving the tent
and stepping out.

00:59:40.096 --> 00:59:43.176
Free washing and burial for the deceased.

01:00:02.696 --> 01:00:04.096
When I took the body bag,

01:00:04.296 --> 01:00:05.496
someone stopped me

01:00:07.056 --> 01:00:09.656
and told me it's forbidden
to take one of these bags.

01:00:10.296 --> 01:00:13.696
I replied: if I become a martyr,
will one be returned to me?

01:00:14.456 --> 01:00:15.616
He said yes.

01:00:15.776 --> 01:00:17.896
Let me then
enjoy it while I'm alive,

01:00:18.096 --> 01:00:19.696
and not just after my death.

01:00:33.016 --> 01:00:37.176
It's as if you feel yourself
going from Hell to Heaven.

01:01:11.656 --> 01:01:14.776
Abed!

01:01:14.976 --> 01:01:18.376
Abed! What do you need?

01:01:21.936 --> 01:01:24.256
I was targeted three times in 24 hours.

01:01:26.136 --> 01:01:28.696
The first time my cousin and I
were returning from Camp 5.

01:01:29.136 --> 01:01:32.936
They attacked the house and
we were buried in the wreckage.

01:01:33.136 --> 01:01:38.216
I was wounded in the eye.
An ambulance took me to the hospital.

01:01:40.096 --> 01:01:41.256
Then we came back home.

01:01:41.616 --> 01:01:44.216
My cousin arrived at the door
and the attack began.

01:01:44.416 --> 01:01:45.896
Suddenly, there was no more electricity,

01:01:46.576 --> 01:01:49.096
debris fell on us like rain.

01:01:49.976 --> 01:01:53.536
The place became very narrow.
My cousin Khalid was close to me.

01:01:54.736 --> 01:01:57.736
Suddenly, Khalid shouts "Mosab!"

01:01:58.736 --> 01:02:02.976
The door handle
was preventing him from breathing.

01:02:04.096 --> 01:02:06.976
I tried to help him but I could
only move the upper part of my body.

01:02:07.096 --> 01:02:08.696
I tried to get him free from the door

01:02:09.096 --> 01:02:11.976
but there were 3 meters
of debris on top of us.

01:02:12.096 --> 01:02:14.416
I couldn't imagine
what was above us.

01:02:14.815 --> 01:02:16.976
I thought it was doable
but I wasn't able to.

01:02:17.456 --> 01:02:24.016
I had my phone, I turned it on,
my brother was near me.

01:02:24.256 --> 01:02:25.936
I couldn't help them.

01:02:26.136 --> 01:02:26.976
I started calling
for help on the phone.

01:02:28.496 --> 01:02:32.256
It's Samy, another cousin,
talking to me.

01:02:32.736 --> 01:02:35.416
Tell him we're coming slowly
so the rubble doesn't fall on him.

01:02:35.616 --> 01:02:40.656
We're coming boys we're coming!

01:02:40.776 --> 01:02:44.616
Slowly, slowly.

01:02:45.216 --> 01:02:48.216
When they heard my voice, they knew
I was the only one still alive.

01:02:49.056 --> 01:02:50.615
The civil defense started working.

01:02:50.696 --> 01:02:54.096
They got me out first
after an hour and a half.

01:02:54.455 --> 01:02:57.096
Is anyone up there?

01:02:57.656 --> 01:03:00.656
- No, nobody, Mosab.
- My head is under pressure.

01:03:01.376 --> 01:03:04.176
- Are you breathing normally?
- I'm fine, I'm not injured.

01:03:04.376 --> 01:03:07.136
Do you see that? If someone breaks it
and removes this stone I can get out.

01:03:07.296 --> 01:03:09.576
Ok, ok, one minute.

01:03:09.616 --> 01:03:10.736
Mosab, who's next to you?

01:03:10.936 --> 01:03:15.456
- Khalid? Is he dead?
- Yes.

01:03:19.096 --> 01:03:23.056
Khalid, my cousin,
he was my childhood friend,

01:03:23.416 --> 01:03:24.256
We were the same age.

01:03:24.896 --> 01:03:27.616
We went to the same school
from kindergarten to high school.

01:03:31.016 --> 01:03:35.936
Thank God I wasn't injured,
I could move and walk.

01:03:38.256 --> 01:03:40.936
After going to the hospital
and burying our martyrs,

01:03:42.776 --> 01:03:44.976
I went to my uncle's house.

01:03:45.576 --> 01:03:48.096
We sat down
and had dinner together.

01:03:48.296 --> 01:03:49.816
After a few moments,

01:03:50.216 --> 01:03:52.615
we were terrified by
the sound of an explosion.

01:03:52.696 --> 01:03:54.216
I heard
the explosion,

01:03:54.416 --> 01:03:56.696
and suddenly we were buried
under debris again.

01:03:56.896 --> 01:03:59.896
A part of the mosque's roof
fell on us.

01:04:00.496 --> 01:04:03.496
The ground around us
was completely destroyed.

01:04:05.616 --> 01:04:09.096
Our martyrs were
8 children from my family,

01:04:09.216 --> 01:04:12.656
my aunt and her husband,

01:04:12.976 --> 01:04:16.176
my aunt's daughter and
her 5-year-old daughter,

01:04:17.896 --> 01:04:21.736
The third attack
was the toughest of those 24 hours.

01:05:17.456 --> 01:05:21.376
Thank God, come out.
Let him wash his face.

01:05:29.936 --> 01:05:34.816
- I can stand up, I can.
- Ok, enough, leave him, leave him.

01:05:35.816 --> 01:05:38.816
Do you want to make an opening there?
The wall that supports the door,

01:05:38.976 --> 01:05:42.016
you have to cut a meter off it.

01:05:44.616 --> 01:05:47.896
We thank God you're alive.

01:05:48.536 --> 01:05:50.056
When I came out,

01:05:50.096 --> 01:05:52.256
the first thing I thought of was
my father and mother.

01:05:52.456 --> 01:05:56.216
When I saw them under the rubble
They were beside me.

01:05:56.376 --> 01:05:59.616
My mother, God bless her,
had her head against mine.

01:05:59.696 --> 01:06:01.456
My father's leg
was near my head.

01:06:01.696 --> 01:06:02.576
I could feel them.

01:06:02.896 --> 01:06:05.456
When I came out, my brother and I
started removing the debris.

01:06:05.616 --> 01:06:09.376
To rescue my mother and father first,
even though my sister, my niece,

01:06:09.496 --> 01:06:11.296
my uncle, my aunt,

01:06:11.576 --> 01:06:16.096
and five other members of my family
were under there too.

01:06:26.375 --> 01:06:31.296
I miss my family, my home
and my work.

01:06:31.816 --> 01:06:36.096
Every stage of my life was demolished
in front of my eyes.

01:06:36.216 --> 01:06:38.096
It's God's will.

01:07:37.376 --> 01:07:41.416
Today is one of the hardest days
of my life.

01:07:43.816 --> 01:07:48.616
Today, I saw my future
slip through my hands.

01:07:49.216 --> 01:07:52.216
What I held most dear
in life is gone.

01:07:56.776 --> 01:08:00.256
I have just lost the one I love.

01:08:02.976 --> 01:08:04.696
Nour has gone.

01:08:10.016 --> 01:08:11.856
We had agreed

01:08:13.896 --> 01:08:15.816
that I would propose to her soon.

01:08:17.216 --> 01:08:19.016
I didn't know

01:08:20.656 --> 01:08:22.376
this would be our fate.

01:08:25.696 --> 01:08:27.416
She's gone

01:08:27.696 --> 01:08:30.016
and her family too.

01:08:45.816 --> 01:08:49.056
We had agreed
on the names of our children.

01:08:51.616 --> 01:08:53.816
The first boy would be named Jad

01:08:55.536 --> 01:08:58.296
and if it was a girl, Nathalie.

01:09:01.576 --> 01:09:04.576
She's under the rubble.

01:09:05.296 --> 01:09:06.496
You know what...

01:09:07.576 --> 01:09:09.496
even they could not bring her out.

01:09:11.936 --> 01:09:14.776
I feel such oppression.

01:09:15.456 --> 01:09:17.896
I can't even cry.

01:09:19.016 --> 01:09:19.816
God.

01:09:20.816 --> 01:09:22.215
God.

01:09:22.616 --> 01:09:25.616
When will this war end?

01:09:27.456 --> 01:09:28.336
I...

01:09:30.296 --> 01:09:31.056
Come here

01:09:37.296 --> 01:09:39.816
I can't help it, I love her.

01:13:42.376 --> 01:13:44.656
Eat, Wanissa

01:15:40.736 --> 01:15:43.736
Bakery

01:16:44.616 --> 01:16:47.376
I'm Etimmad,
director of the short film "Wanissa"

01:16:48.696 --> 01:16:50.616
As I was filming,

01:16:50.856 --> 01:16:53.615
I was crushed by a tragic event.

01:16:54.776 --> 01:16:58.376
I learned about the death of my brother
Nassem and his children.

01:16:59.456 --> 01:17:01.616
It shattered me.

01:17:04.616 --> 01:17:07.616
I was depressed

01:17:08.295 --> 01:17:10.696
and I lost the desire
to continue this work.

01:17:11.376 --> 01:17:16.296
I was just starting
but I couldn't continue filming.

01:17:18.816 --> 01:17:23.696
I gave up, I felt alone,
unable to do anything.

01:17:25.816 --> 01:17:28.336
I had planned an ending

01:17:29.016 --> 01:17:31.896
where Ahmad, my character, would die
in a bombing

01:17:32.896 --> 01:17:35.576
and Wanissa, the donkey,
would return home alone.

01:17:36.016 --> 01:17:39.616
I realized, after the tragedy,
that I couldn't finish the story.

01:17:39.896 --> 01:17:43.456
I could only finish it
with my testimony.

01:18:04.376 --> 01:18:06.856
Every thing of beauty
is an offering to the gods.

01:18:07.936 --> 01:18:11.056
And we are the offerings
of the present time.

01:18:20.656 --> 01:18:25.655
I became a writer with the wish to free myself
from the traditional Palestinian narrative.

01:18:26.176 --> 01:18:29.776
I chose to tell stories of our society
and I decided

01:18:30.455 --> 01:18:33.136
to talk about life, hope, and love.

01:18:33.696 --> 01:18:38.576
Since the war, I didn't know if I could
approach these subjects in the same way.

01:18:41.656 --> 01:18:47.176
Displaced, I suddenly moved
from one life to another

01:18:47.376 --> 01:18:51.216
As if I had opened a door
into another time...

01:18:51.536 --> 01:18:54.856
full of tents
and sad people,

01:18:55.056 --> 01:18:56.216
dusty faces,

01:18:56.655 --> 01:18:58.416
streets flooded with sewage.

01:18:58.575 --> 01:19:01.576
The markets, the canned food,
everything is too expensive.

01:19:01.856 --> 01:19:03.736
You need a fortune just
to find something to eat.

01:19:35.216 --> 01:19:39.896
Today, I want to tell you
a story. Are you ready?

01:19:40.696 --> 01:19:42.696
I want to tell you the story
of my grandfather Khaled.

01:19:43.136 --> 01:19:46.456
When he fled Jaffa, he landed in Gaza.

01:19:47.656 --> 01:19:48.775
He lived in tents

01:19:48.936 --> 01:19:50.936
like the ones
we live in today.

01:19:52.576 --> 01:19:54.936
They displaced us from Jaffa to Gaza.

01:19:55.616 --> 01:19:59.976
They displaced us from Gaza
to other places

01:20:00.616 --> 01:20:02.456
so that we would forget Jaffa.

01:20:03.056 --> 01:20:05.896
But we will never forget.

01:21:04.896 --> 01:21:06.776
I fell over when I picked up
that brochure for you.

01:21:11.136 --> 01:21:13.176
We have lost many relatives,

01:21:13.616 --> 01:21:16.016
friends, family, a father.

01:21:17.456 --> 01:21:19.816
The most painful thing
is that they are just numbers now.

01:21:20.216 --> 01:21:25.896
We know they had a past,
dreams, a life, and a future.

01:21:26.656 --> 01:21:33.015
But when the news comes, they tell us
100, 200 martyrs, a family wiped out,

01:21:34.456 --> 01:21:37.176
Numbers.
No recognition of the human beings.

01:21:41.376 --> 01:21:43.016
What's that over there?

01:21:45.016 --> 01:21:46.376
Can you see the fire?

01:21:50.936 --> 01:21:52.576
I don't know when the war will end.

01:21:53.455 --> 01:21:57.416
We will all need therapy
to endure all the pain.

01:21:57.936 --> 01:21:59.696
No one is okay.

01:22:01.856 --> 01:22:04.456
Take me away, oh God,
from this mournful garden.

01:22:05.336 --> 01:22:07.536
I want to live in peace.

01:22:46.456 --> 01:22:47.416
Hello Hana.

01:22:47.576 --> 01:22:48.896
What if we filmed people from Khozaha

01:22:49.256 --> 01:22:51.016
who have come home after the fighting?

01:22:51.296 --> 01:22:55.296
These people have found
their homes destroyed,

01:22:56.616 --> 01:22:59.576
and they have very powerful testimonies.

01:23:01.536 --> 01:23:05.976
Listen Hanaa,
I was just at the camp

01:23:06.536 --> 01:23:11.216
and I saw a man in the sea
because he had no water to wash himself,

01:23:11.656 --> 01:23:15.776
and women washing dishes in the sea.

01:23:17.736 --> 01:23:20.536
Listen Hanaa, there's a story
that no one has told yet.

01:23:20.736 --> 01:23:24.816
a house was bombed and most
of the bodies were removed from the rubble

01:23:25.616 --> 01:23:27.056
Three are still under the rubble.

01:23:27.415 --> 01:23:29.055
The family whose house it was

01:23:29.416 --> 01:23:30.975
or rather the surviving members

01:23:31.616 --> 01:23:36.616
wrote on the rubble that Omar, Abdulah,
and Mazin are still buried underneath.

01:23:36.856 --> 01:23:39.856
What do you think of this subject
that noone has touched so far?

01:23:40.536 --> 01:23:43.816
No Ahmad, I don't want any
of the stories you've just proposed to me.

01:23:44.456 --> 01:23:51.016
Listen, I'm looking for a subject that
speaks of joy, happiness, hope, love

01:23:51.616 --> 01:23:52.456
with music

01:23:53.056 --> 01:23:55.536
Who makes music in Gaza, Ahmad?

01:23:56.376 --> 01:23:58.016
Who makes music in Rafah?

01:23:59.736 --> 01:24:00.576
Ahmad

01:24:02.935 --> 01:24:05.696
Hello, how are you?
What have you found?

01:24:05.896 --> 01:24:07.976
I have the music you're looking for

01:24:16.736 --> 01:24:17.696
Great

01:24:17.856 --> 01:24:19.256
I'll call Saïd.

01:24:45.216 --> 01:24:48.615
Hello, how are you?

01:24:53.296 --> 01:24:56.256
-What are you doing these days?
-Nothing, nothing.

01:24:57.616 --> 01:25:00.296
Hey it's hot in here.

01:25:02.936 --> 01:25:06.416
Hello everyone.

01:25:17.936 --> 01:25:18.936
Thank you.

01:25:25.936 --> 01:25:28.736
I'm against everything that's happening.

01:25:28.856 --> 01:25:33.776
On October 7th, I said to myself
"no no no".

01:25:34.056 --> 01:25:37.976
No, it's not possible.
It can't be real.

01:25:38.376 --> 01:25:44.616
I reject despair,
frustration, and ugliness.

01:25:44.776 --> 01:25:46.776
When I decided to make a film
during the war,

01:25:47.016 --> 01:25:49.136
I chose people like me.

01:25:49.296 --> 01:25:50.136
I chose you.

01:25:51.936 --> 01:25:56.376
And what if we sang a song
dedicated to love and hope?

01:25:57.176 --> 01:25:57.936
Shall we?

01:26:05.616 --> 01:26:08.855
Tomorrow we will forget the crises.
They will pass

01:26:10.016 --> 01:26:14.016
and we will see beautiful smiles again.

01:26:16.456 --> 01:26:19.616
Tomorrow, we will forget the crises,
they will pass

01:26:21.216 --> 01:26:24.176
and we will see beautiful smiles again.

01:26:25.616 --> 01:26:29.296
Forget and try to stay calm.

01:26:30.616 --> 01:26:34.536
It's certain,
the happy days will return.

01:26:35.616 --> 01:26:37.856
Leave what's passed behind you.

01:26:38.056 --> 01:26:42.816
Ahead of you, beautiful days
and beautiful years await.

01:26:43.456 --> 01:26:46.416
Amidst the greatest crises,
we are all with you.

01:26:46.575 --> 01:26:49.896
Pursue your dreams and build Palestine.

01:26:51.016 --> 01:26:54.456
Tomorrow, we will forget the crises,
they will pass

01:26:55.576 --> 01:26:58.736
and we will see beautiful smiles again.

01:27:00.216 --> 01:27:03.855
Forget and try to stay calm.

01:27:05.216 --> 01:27:09.296
It's certain,
the happy days will return.

01:27:12.376 --> 01:27:16.616
In fact, I say no to all this despair.

01:27:16.736 --> 01:27:19.336
If we're not convinced
to say no to all of this...

01:27:19.536 --> 01:27:21.736
As long as you have the power to say no,

01:27:22.296 --> 01:27:24.816
then you can have hope.

01:27:25.255 --> 01:27:28.016
If you don't insist,
deep inside you

01:27:28.176 --> 01:27:31.856
on saying no,
even with those close to you,

01:27:32.256 --> 01:27:33.256
It will be impossible.

01:27:33.376 --> 01:27:37.056
I say no in order to be able
to keep giving and to continue.

01:27:37.816 --> 01:27:41.496
In certain situations,
the children are sad. Why?

01:27:41.656 --> 01:27:45.496
That becomes my responsibility. When
I play or sing, it makes them happy.

01:27:45.616 --> 01:27:46.576
So I do it.

01:27:47.936 --> 01:27:51.256
Look how eager the children are.
They're waiting for the whistle.

01:28:10.416 --> 01:28:15.496
We want to laugh, rejoice,
sing and express our emotions.

01:28:15.536 --> 01:28:18.816
Yes, there are bombings
and destruction

01:28:19.256 --> 01:28:20.896
and many other things

01:28:21.536 --> 01:28:23.736
that take us back to zero.

01:28:23.776 --> 01:28:26.696
But that only increases
our challenge to overcome.

01:28:42.816 --> 01:28:44.576
Our ambition was
as big as the world.

01:28:44.776 --> 01:28:48.696
With great ambition, we dreamed,
worked hard and planned.

01:28:49.416 --> 01:28:52.496
Now my ambition is
to find a safe place to sleep.

01:28:52.776 --> 01:28:55.336
I've put my family and
my sisters in a safe place.

01:28:58.416 --> 01:29:02.056
Relax, oh sea.

01:29:02.056 --> 01:29:06.856
We've been absent for a long time.

01:29:07.376 --> 01:29:11.736
Send my regards

01:29:12.016 --> 01:29:16.616
to Gaza, who raised us.

01:29:17.216 --> 01:29:18.776
Rhaff, what would you say "No" to?

01:29:20.296 --> 01:29:22.176
No to injustice,
No to violence,

01:29:23.016 --> 01:29:25.776
No to the violation of human rights

01:29:26.816 --> 01:29:31.496
No! To everything that goes against
humanity, joy, life...

01:29:31.855 --> 01:29:34.455
against our smiles...

01:29:34.616 --> 01:29:35.856
... the smiles of our children

01:29:36.016 --> 01:29:36.816
... our dreams,

01:29:37.176 --> 01:29:40.256
No to everything that destroys our hopes

01:29:40.976 --> 01:29:44.616
No to everything that destroys us.

01:30:37.616 --> 01:30:42.336
My cousin died. His name was Yehya.

01:30:44.896 --> 01:30:47.616
Everyone was shocked.

01:30:47.856 --> 01:30:49.376
It was night-time.

01:30:49.616 --> 01:30:53.976
They went to bury him at 10 p.m.
It was very late.

01:30:54.896 --> 01:30:59.976
When we heard about his death,
we were all in shock.

01:31:16.136 --> 01:31:18.576
I was trapped under
the rubble for 6 hours.

01:31:18.696 --> 01:31:20.616
I was calling for my brothers
and my mother.

01:31:21.336 --> 01:31:23.936
I wanted my brothers and my mother.

01:31:24.216 --> 01:31:27.696
I was shouting "Help us, Help us.

01:31:28.696 --> 01:31:33.216
Voices were asking if
there were any survivors.

01:31:33.536 --> 01:31:37.536
I shouted: “Yes, I am Myriam, help me!”.

01:31:38.856 --> 01:31:43.416
So the civil defence
were able to locate me in my room.

01:31:44.536 --> 01:31:46.376
They pulled me out after 6 hours.

01:31:50.536 --> 01:31:54.056
My room was here, and
that was my parents’ room

01:31:55.016 --> 01:31:57.176
and my brother’s room was over there.

01:31:58.496 --> 01:32:03.695
That was the kitchen, and that's
the remains of the terrace…

01:32:04.816 --> 01:32:10.135
That’s the bed from your room.
Look, there.

01:32:10.696 --> 01:32:14.496
Yes, that’s where
they pulled me out from.

01:32:16.336 --> 01:32:20.496
I am very afraid of the night.
Night means bombings…

01:32:22.256 --> 01:32:27.776
All those who died as martyrs,
my friends and family.

01:32:28.776 --> 01:32:31.296
We got the news of their deaths at night.

01:32:31.616 --> 01:32:34.896
So, when night comes, it’s a nightmare.

01:32:35.216 --> 01:32:39.936
The night scares me. I dont' like it.
I don’t want to lose anyone else.

01:32:40.216 --> 01:32:47.855
Whenever the sun goes down
and the moon comes out, I lose somebody.

01:33:02.296 --> 01:33:10.176
I was tidying my wardrobe when suddenly
the rubble of the house fell on me.

01:33:10.776 --> 01:33:15.456
I was scared for my mother
and my whole family.

01:33:16.496 --> 01:33:18.696
When they pulled me out,

01:33:19.256 --> 01:33:24.376
I learned that my mother was dead.
So were my sisters.

01:33:25.056 --> 01:33:27.376
I'm still terrified.

01:33:28.536 --> 01:33:31.335
My aunt is still under the rubble.

01:33:48.416 --> 01:33:53.536
The noise of the rockets makes
an unbearable pressure inside my ears.

01:33:54.016 --> 01:33:57.616
The sound of the rockeks is very close.

01:33:58.495 --> 01:34:04.616
When they are shooting, I feel it inside
my ears and it hurts a lot.

01:34:11.056 --> 01:34:14.376
I have many good memories
of my life in this house,

01:34:14.736 --> 01:34:17.336
of going to school and coming back home.

01:34:17.656 --> 01:34:20.776
Mum used to take care of me,
help me with my homework,

01:34:21.856 --> 01:34:23.735
and give me advice...

01:34:24.496 --> 01:34:27.856
I miss her a lot.

01:34:30.696 --> 01:34:32.656
I also miss my sister,

01:34:34.416 --> 01:34:36.416
terribly.

01:34:37.376 --> 01:34:41.456
My grandfather, my aunt, family members...

01:34:41.975 --> 01:34:44.776
In total 24 people died in the building...

01:34:49.776 --> 01:34:54.976
I often wish that this war would stop.

01:34:55.536 --> 01:35:01.976
Our mental health is ruined.
We cannot live with this war any longer.

01:35:05.856 --> 01:35:09.416
I have no news of my school friends.

01:35:10.576 --> 01:35:13.416
Are they alive or dead?

01:35:13.616 --> 01:35:18.216
Do they live in tents or houses?
I don’t know.

01:35:19.416 --> 01:35:23.535
I am exhausted..
I have lived through difficult days.

01:35:23.856 --> 01:35:26.776
I can’t go on living like this...

01:35:27.336 --> 01:35:30.376
We are so tired.

01:41:01.136 --> 01:41:06.416
These are the sketches from my project.

01:41:09.256 --> 01:41:13.696
This project was my hope
of being recognized at university.

01:41:14.535 --> 01:41:18.976
but they blew up the university
about two weeks ago.

01:41:22.215 --> 01:41:24.936
Now I don't have any project left
anywhere

01:41:25.216 --> 01:41:27.975
in the workshop, at university,
or anywhere.

01:41:30.216 --> 01:41:32.176
This is the following version

01:41:33.176 --> 01:41:35.616
of the sketch from my graduation project

01:41:37.336 --> 01:41:40.456
but the explosion blew all that away,
from here to over there.

01:41:58.736 --> 01:42:01.576
In Gaza, the only horizon we have
is the sea.

01:42:02.376 --> 01:42:03.936
And it's lucky that the sea exists.

01:42:04.296 --> 01:42:07.136
Without it, I don't know
what would become of us.

01:42:09.496 --> 01:42:13.936
I managed to capture the waves,
the waves of the sea of Gaza.

01:42:15.856 --> 01:42:19.376
But it's been about five months
since I last saw it.

01:42:20.536 --> 01:42:22.056
Now I'm afraid to go there.

01:42:26.616 --> 01:42:30.336
This one is called "Living Peace".
It represents a dove.

01:42:30.656 --> 01:42:33.135
Because every time we saw
a white dove,

01:42:33.815 --> 01:42:35.496
it gave us hope.

01:42:37.136 --> 01:42:41.376
I covered them with pearls,

01:42:42.816 --> 01:42:45.136
to express serenity.

01:42:45.416 --> 01:42:49.455
Serenity comes from peace,
the dove calls for peace.

01:42:51.616 --> 01:42:55.416
But there is no more peace.

01:42:55.936 --> 01:42:59.216
And anyway, there's no more
possibility of a culture of peace.

01:42:59.816 --> 01:43:02.736
The peace we have now
is a murderous peace.

01:43:21.816 --> 01:43:24.656
I was taking a risk with this one

01:43:25.736 --> 01:43:29.256
with this idea
of shards of ​​mirror

01:43:31.416 --> 01:43:33.336
covering the form.

01:43:36.616 --> 01:43:40.496
I was afraid this work
would be misunderstood.

01:43:41.456 --> 01:43:45.496
or that it might even be attacked,
but on the contrary, people liked it

01:43:45.776 --> 01:43:47.416
and it attracted a lot of attention.

01:44:19.216 --> 01:44:22.416
This is a wide view of the city of Gaza

01:44:22.816 --> 01:44:25.335
We often imagined Gaza from afar.

01:44:25.616 --> 01:44:27.616
We imagined its beauty.

01:44:28.656 --> 01:44:32.456
But if you look more closely at Gaza,

01:44:33.656 --> 01:44:36.416
you'll see that it's
charged with history.

01:44:37.896 --> 01:44:41.216
The details of every stone,
the old stones

01:44:41.976 --> 01:44:46.416
the stones tell stories,
the stories of our lives.

01:44:47.616 --> 01:44:51.976
If you focus on each stone,
you can read those stories there.

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So I chose
an overview of Gaza.

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I was preparing
to participate in exhibitions

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and even in international exhibitions

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but I could never have imagined that
everything would be destroyed like this.

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Even when the war started,
I never imagined

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that it would be like this.

01:45:33.256 --> 01:45:36.296
But the war spared no one.

01:45:53.456 --> 01:45:57.736
There is still hope, Ranin!

01:45:58.616 --> 01:46:01.056
It's strange that
hope is still here.

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Majd, Majd.
Where are you? Come out and play.

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- Mum, I want to go and play with Oussama.
- Where are you going to play? Don't go too far.

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Mum, I don't understand.

01:46:58.656 --> 01:47:01.216
You say "Don't play in front of the tent,
your dad is sleeping"

01:47:01.936 --> 01:47:03.936
"Don't go too far, I'm scared."

01:47:04.376 --> 01:47:08.415
What can I do? Do you want me
to play on the roof of the tent?

01:47:08.896 --> 01:47:10.136
Just don't go far, that's all.

01:47:10.496 --> 01:47:12.535
And bring back some boxes for the fire.

01:47:19.536 --> 01:47:23.616
Good God, they're even bombing our tents.

01:47:24.336 --> 01:47:25.695
Where can we go?

01:47:26.056 --> 01:47:27.736
Are you okay, son?

01:47:28.336 --> 01:47:29.815
Are you both okay?

01:47:31.735 --> 01:47:34.056
Ah! Aren't you Seham? My wife?

01:47:35.896 --> 01:47:37.976
Did you call me Seham? Your wife?

01:47:38.816 --> 01:47:40.496
Do you really remember me?

01:47:40.816 --> 01:47:42.496
Do you really remember me, Khaled?

01:47:42.936 --> 01:47:43.696
Have you come back to us, Khaled?

01:47:44.296 --> 01:47:45.816
Why? Where have I been?

01:47:46.176 --> 01:47:47.576
Who is this boy?

01:47:48.256 --> 01:47:49.496
This is your son Majd.

01:47:49.656 --> 01:47:52.336
I was pregnant
during the 2014 war.

01:47:52.816 --> 01:47:55.536
An explosion made you lose your memory.

01:47:57.935 --> 01:48:00.576
For we Palestinians, that is how it goes.

01:48:00.936 --> 01:48:02.936
One explosion makes us leave

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and another makes us return.

01:48:06.295 --> 01:48:09.496
The explosion just now has woken you up.

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The 2014 war?

01:48:14.816 --> 01:48:16.616
But what year is it now?

01:48:17.656 --> 01:48:18.816
Why are we in a tent?

01:48:19.055 --> 01:48:20.576
Are we camping on the beach?

01:48:20.736 --> 01:48:23.216
We have traveled a long way, it's true

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but not to the beach.

01:48:25.176 --> 01:48:27.336
We have taken refuge in Khan Younis.

01:48:28.536 --> 01:48:29.856
Are you my son?

01:48:30.176 --> 01:48:31.296
Can this be possible?

01:48:32.256 --> 01:48:33.496
I closed my eyes

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and when I open them again

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I learn that I have a son
as beautiful as you?

01:48:39.256 --> 01:48:41.496
Have I awoken in the future
or in the past?

01:48:42.976 --> 01:48:46.056
Wasn't the Nakba in 1948?

01:48:47.736 --> 01:48:49.775
Or has the order of
numbers changed too?

01:48:50.576 --> 01:48:51.816
Listen to me, Dad.

01:48:52.176 --> 01:48:54.136
Oh, I love to hear that word… Dad

01:48:54.616 --> 01:48:56.136
but I still have to get used to it.

01:48:56.775 --> 01:49:00.376
This war is not like all the others.

01:49:01.256 --> 01:49:02.496
This time there is nothing left.

01:49:02.896 --> 01:49:03.896
They have destroyed everything.

01:49:04.376 --> 01:49:05.776
Everything is gone.

01:49:06.016 --> 01:49:07.936
Good God... Good God...

01:49:08.536 --> 01:49:09.976
Everything is gone?

01:49:10.336 --> 01:49:11.056
Tell me...

01:49:11.256 --> 01:49:12.216
what else?

01:49:12.656 --> 01:49:16.296
Mum took us and we fled to Khan Younis.

01:49:16.696 --> 01:49:18.576
Everyone in the city was displaced.

01:49:18.816 --> 01:49:20.936
And the Arabs? And the Muslims?

01:49:21.256 --> 01:49:22.536
What is everyone doing?

01:49:22.936 --> 01:49:24.336
I told you, Khaled

01:49:24.696 --> 01:49:25.976
everything is gone.

01:49:26.815 --> 01:49:28.616
It's as if the earth ceased to exist.

01:49:28.976 --> 01:49:30.896
Everyone is just watching

01:49:31.216 --> 01:49:32.456
Everything is gone.

01:49:33.056 --> 01:49:35.616
It looks like there is no one left.

01:49:35.656 --> 01:49:36.736
Everything is gone.

01:49:44.016 --> 01:49:45.616
If everything is gone

01:49:46.616 --> 01:49:48.296
then let’s go

01:49:48.696 --> 01:49:49.976
back to where I was.

01:49:50.656 --> 01:49:52.776
Where do you want to take us, Dad?

01:49:53.216 --> 01:49:54.896
To a safe place?

01:49:55.536 --> 01:49:57.416
I am dying of fear.

01:49:57.815 --> 01:49:59.776
Let’s all lose our memories.

01:50:00.376 --> 01:50:02.176
And forget everything.

01:50:02.496 --> 01:50:05.215
No Khaled, we will never forget.

01:50:05.376 --> 01:50:07.415
The safest thing is to stay together.

01:50:07.896 --> 01:50:11.656
You know Seham, you are
the only one I never forgot.

01:50:12.576 --> 01:50:13.536
Every time I see you

01:50:14.216 --> 01:50:16.216
I feel like my heart is
going to explode.

01:50:17.975 --> 01:50:18.935
Dad...

01:50:29.256 --> 01:50:31.776
Every day, the siege.

01:50:31.976 --> 01:50:34.376
Every day, we sing.

01:50:35.176 --> 01:50:40.335
They destroy and we rebuild.

01:50:40.816 --> 01:50:45.856
We are peaceful lovers of flowers
and of the music of the rabab.

01:50:46.376 --> 01:50:51.575
The child slowly learns to write.

01:50:52.736 --> 01:50:57.216
We are the tide that has returned to
raise up love and to raise the boats.

01:50:57.736 --> 01:51:02.336
We are the sun that shines
and illuminates the planets.

01:51:02.856 --> 01:51:07.656
Every day, the siege,
Every day, we sing.

01:51:08.696 --> 01:51:13.496
They destroy and we rebuild.