"Being a Palestinian under Israeli occupation will not help someone make a good film, according to Rashid Masharawi, but a good film-maker will help Palestine. With his anthology film From Ground Zero (in Arabic: From Zero Distance) he attempts to do just that by bridging the space between the Palestinians in Gaza who have endured a campaign of annihilation behind closed doors to those around the world watching as an incomprehensibly vast tragedy unfolds in real time."
"The result is a collection of 22 shorts by Palestinian film-makers, ranging from documentary to vignettes and animation, which turns our attention not only to the past and to the unrelenting violence of the present, when the death toll in Gaza continues to climb but also to the future and what cannot be taken. Cinema can protect memory and can keep Palestinians on the ground because films are like dreams, ideas. Nobody can occupy dreams. Nobody can occupy ideas. Nobody can occupy memory"
From Ground Zero gathers 22 Palestinian short films spanning documentary, vignettes and animation to connect Gaza's lived reality with global audiences. The anthology shifts attention to past losses, ongoing violence, and the irreducible future while affirming cinema's role in preserving memory and imagination. Films depict intimate acts of survival, such as a woman casting a letter into the sea and children animating parents' names to survive bombing. Dark humour and raw testimony appear alongside incomplete work interrupted by personal loss. The collection asserts that creativity, memory and imagination resist occupation and sustain hope for tomorrow.
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