From Ground Zero

An anthology of short films produced by Masharawi fund and Coorigines Production.

The Ground Zero project was launched by Rashid Masharawi, the Palestinian director from Gaza, during the war launched after the attacks of October 7, 2023. This project was born from the observation that the words of the Gazans are difficult to hear, that it is necessary to have traces of what is experienced so that memory is preserved, that the history of the occupation of Palestine cannot be rewritten without taking into account that of the Palestinians and particularly those of Gaza. In this context, it is not easy to imagine a flourishing creative space and yet it exists. The Gaza Strip has its artistic talents, which nothing must stop from creating. This is how the idea was born to compose a 60-minute film with about twenty very short stories, each lasting three minutes on average. This allows for a multiplicity of points of view, guarantees the feasibility of filming, which is necessarily short and scattered across the Gaza Strip, and illustrates creative fertility by borrowing from different genres: fiction, documentary, docu-fiction, animation and even experimental. In this context, it is not easy to imagine a flourishing creative space, and yet it exists. The Gaza Strip has its own artistic talent, and nothing should stop it from creating. This gave rise to the idea of composing a 60-minute film with twenty or so very short stories, each three minutes long on average. This allows for a multiplicity of points of view, guarantees the feasibility of filming, which is necessarily short and scattered across the Gaza Strip, and illustrates the creative fertility of borrowing from different genres: fiction, documentary, docu-fiction, animation and even experimental.

SUPERVISION

RASHID MASHARAWI

EDITING & POST-PRODUCTION SUPERVISION

DENIS LEPAVEN

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

ALA’ ABU GHOUSH

MUSIC

NASEER SHAMMA

ARTISTIC ADVISERS

ABEDSALAM ALHAJJ
DORA BOUCHOUCHA
LAYALI BADR
RASMI DAMO
NADA DOUMANI
NADIA ELIEWAT
HUSSAM HINDI
MICHEL KAMMOUN
LAURA NIKOLOV

COORDINATION

LAURA NIKOLOV

MIX & SOUND DESIGN

SARAH FASSEUR-LEROUX

PUBLIC RELATIONS

ANAÏS PITKEVICHT

COPRODUCTION

METAFORA PRODUCTION
ROYAL FILM COMMISSION (JORDANIE)
SHARJAH ART FOUNDATION

SUPPORTED BY

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SUPPORT
DOHA FILM INSTITUTE

WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF

NOMADIS IMAGES
AKKA FILMS

INFORMATIONS

GENRES :

DOCUMENTARY - FICTION - ANIMATION - EXPERIMENTAL

DURATION :

112 MINUTES

SELECTIONS :

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024
AMMAN INTERNATIONAL FILM 2024
TAORMINA FILM FESTIVAL 2024
WARM FILM FESTIVAL 2024

YEAR OF PRODUCTION :

2024

COUNTRIES :

PALESTINE, FRANCE, QATAR, JORDAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

CHARACTERISTICS

RATIO : 1.85
SOUND : 5.1
SOUS-TITRES : FRANÇAIS, ANGLAIS, ALLEMAND, ITALIEN

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