Gaza
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With Hasan in Gaza
GAZA: A 2001 MiniDV journey across the Gaza Strip captures quiet daily life under occupation while hinting at looming catastrophe and the resilience of its people.
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Habibi Hussein
PALESTINE: From Jenin to future Gaza rebuilds, one cinema’s reopening becomes parable of aid spectacle, cultural erasure, and sidelined local knowledge.
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Verzió 2025 Sets November dates and unveils «We Exist Together» theme
The 22nd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will run 11–19 November 2025 across Hungary, followed by an online edition from 20–30 November. This year’s slogan, «We Exist Together,» frames a program that examines how communities confront conflict, fracture and shared responsibility. The festival opens with Coexistence, My Ass!, a five-year portrait of Israeli…
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
GAZA: Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, Kaouther Ben Hania’s film follows Hind Rajab’s calls, Red Crescent coordination, and an ambulance denied until it’s shot.
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«Memory resists erasure and disappearance»
INTERVIEW: Kamal Aljafari on his first and latest film, With Hasan in Gaza.
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Israeli documentarians confront Gaza genocide in open letter
Published by the International Documentary Association on 15 September 2025, an open letter gathers dozens of Israeli documentary filmmakers who, while unequivocally condemning #Hamas’ 7 October crimes, declare shame and responsibility for what they describe as state-led mass killing, displacement, and starvation in #Gaza; reject euphemism and denial; and argue that Israel’s campaign has become…
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Ji.hlava IDFF unveils first 2025 titles
The 29th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival will run 24 October– 2 November, retaining its 10-day format and presenting roughly 300 films spanning new Czech and international work, experimental cinema, and themed retrospectives. Taiwanese auteur #Tsai Ming-liang# will return to Jihlava to shoot a new entry in his Walker series during the festival, premiering the…
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Doclisboa 2025 announces opening/closing films and first program highlights
The 23rd edition of #Doclisboa runs 16–26 October 2025. The festival opens with With Hasan in Gaza, by Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari. Edited from footage shot in 2001—when Aljafari and Hasan Elboubou searched for Abdel Rahim, with whom Aljafari was imprisoned in #Gaza in 1989—the film is presented as a road movie set in a territory…
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What does it mean to watch?
PANEL: At Dokufest, a panel discussion posed this epic question: What does it mean to watch?