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Mood:
- BleakSincere
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Plot:
- SoldierPoliticsTerrorismAnti WarDown on Your LuckPolitical UnrestRacismWartime Life more...
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Genres:
- Documentary
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary
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Place:
- Middle EastPalestinian Authority
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Death in Gaza, 2004
Arabic, English, Hebrew
UK
Profile of Death in Gaza
Death in Gaza can be described as bleak and sincere. The plot revolves around anti-war themes, racism, and wartime life. The main genre is documentary. In approach, Death in Gaza is serious and realistic. It is located in the Palestinian Authority. It takes place in contemporary times.
Summary of Death in Gaza
In the Spring of 2003, filmmaker James Miller and reporter Saira Shah, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning duo behind the Afghanistan documentaries UNHOLY WAR and BENEATH THE VEIL, traveled to the Gaza Strip to look inside the lives of children growing up in a war-torn world of unremitting violence, death, and racial and religious hatred. The documentary examines the lives of 12-year-old Ahmed; his best friend, Mohammad; and Najila, a 16-year-old girl who lives in a particularly dangerous neighborhood surrounded by Israeli sniper towers. Though Mohammad's mother makes a desperate plea for peace, the boys throw rocks at Israeli tanks, build homemade bombs, and are recruited by a paramilitary group. Meanwhile, Israeli tanks roll into Najila's neighborhood, crushing and exploding homes in a search for militants.
The documentarians intended to follow up the portrait of the Palestinian children with a look into the lives of Israeli children living under the threat of terrorist attacks, but then, while waving a white flag of peace, James Miller was gunned down by Israeli tanks, dying instantly. Shah returned alone to edit their footage. The result is a harrowing, intimate, and deeply moving film that tells the terrible story of life and death in the Gaza Strip.
Details
| Language: | Arabic, English, Hebrew |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 24 October 2004 |
| Runtime: | 80 min |
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