A scene from Palestinian Anthology film ‘Ground Zero Se’
One of those ideas that continuously move through the brain From ground zeroAn anthology of 22 short films and documentaries by Palestinian filmmakers, is on whether all those we see on screen are now alive. Gaza has been going out of more than 60,000 figures killed in the last two years, with human rights organizations accused of carrying out the massacre, it is likely that at least some of them have already ended.
The 2024 Anthology, Kerala (IDSFK) 17th international documentary and the initial film of the Short Film Festival were excluded from the 77th Kan Film Festival, after being elected to a world premiere, the project director and Funder Rashid Masharavi was motivated to organize a protest. In all 22 shorts in anthology, common is generally a background filled with disintegration of buildings, which spread everyday things, belonging to families that have ended in all relief camps. It may be impossible to find a background without debris in Gaza after 2023.
One of the most poignant shorts in anthology is Ahmed Al Danf A school dayIn which a young boy is ready for school in the morning, walks with tents and the ruins of their school end in a cemetery, where he sits near his dead teacher’s cemetery to study day lessons. In the soft skin of Khamis Masharavi, a group of children discussed the practice of writing their names on their organs to identify them when they were killed in bomb blasts. Discussion is one of them that creates a moving animation of children, which wipe the names that are to overcome their bad dreams.
The stories are not all filled with disappointment, but many of them reveal the abilities of humans to find humor in hope and even the most severe situations. Karim Satum Hell of hell Is she awake in a body bag inside a small, cold tent and trying to withdraw the incidents that ended inside her. It turns out, he bargained with officials to leave a body bag, which could be more useful for him in the cold when he is eventually dead. In nidal prices Everything is fine?A standup comedian literally tries to feel its fellow countrymen amidst extreme pain with their bright performance in refugee camps.
In 1948, from the large scale displacement of the Palestinians and the nakba of murders, the never -ending pain of the Palestinians, is currently occupied in Mahdi Kreha. AwakeningA puppet video in which a father who lost his memory in the explosion in 2014 Out of frameA young artist walks through his destroyed studio, out of the debris from his favorite art works which won some of his amount in the past.
These individual stories can be a difficult watch for the world, which is numbered by daily reports of generalized murder of hundreds of Palestinians in relief camps, food queues and hospitals. In putting face, names and stories for this ongoing tragedy, From ground zero The remarkable colleague of our time is one of the efforts to produce film.
Published – August 23, 2025 08:25 pm IST
