GRAMNet Film Series – May 2016

In observance of Nakba Day

StripLife

Italy/Palestine (2013) | Directors: Nicola Grignani, Alberto Mussolini, Luca Scaffidi, Valeria Testagrossa, Andrea Zambelli | 64 mins | In Arabic with English Subtitles

The Gaza Strip.
An inexplicable event has occurred during the night: dozens of manta rays stranded on the beach in Gaza City.
Fishermen hasten from the whole Strip to grab some fresh meat.
Meanwhile the city is awakening. Antar spurs his brother to get up, today is the great day, in the afternoon he will record his first disk.
Noor puts her make up on, she must appear in front of the television cameras.
Jabber is already in the field. The shots of the rifles remind him that he lives in the buffer zone that separates Gaza from Israel.
A demonstration is going on in the streets.
Moemen is there, doing his job as photographer.
At the port a boat returns with the hull riddled by shots.
The chant of the muezzin invades the space, multiplied by the minarets.
As in a dream , the boys of the Parkour Team pirouette in a cemetery.
Life in the strip winds up until night.

Fragments of Gaza

Palestine/Scotland (2016) | Film footage from various artists in Gaza | Edited & Directed By Basharat Khan And GRAMNet | 10 mins

A new narrative is emerging from Gaza through film making and new technology which transcends the physical boundaries of the siege. This collection of mobile clips, videos, and stories, filmed by the people of Gaza, portrays multiple threads of everyday life and brings together image and sound that otherwise disappear from fleeting social media. Public and private, exceptional and mundane, these glimpses of Gaza are constructed together to discover those narratives coming from Gaza. These fragments tell only a partial story of a place constricted in size but boundless in inspiration.