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An intimate portrait of a former Palestinian fighter, Hamdan, who spent fifteen years in prison, this documentary listens as he revisits the mission that changed his life and the years that followed.
An intimate portrait of a former Palestinian fighter, Hamdan, who spent fifteen years in prison, this documentary listens as he revisits the mission that changed his life and the years that followed. His voice-over unfolds over images of empty roads, homes and faces, punctuated by testimonies that widen the frame from one man to a people’s condition.

The film traces how punishment reverberates into an everyday ‘outside’ that still feels carceral. Grounded in the present, haunted by past decisions, it favours proximity over spectacle, turning testimony into a study of accountability, complicity, and endurance, a stark depiction of how the borders of a prison can be architectural, political, and psychological.

Credits

Director
Martín Solá

About the Director

Martin Sola
Born in Argentina in 1980, he studied film direction at the CYEVIC and attended the Master in Creative Documentary at the Observatorio de Cine in Barcelona, Spain. His first full-length documentary, Caja Cerrada, competed in the Cinema of the Future section at Bafici ’08.

Dates and Showtimes

Wed 24 September7:00 PM
1st Screening

Museum of Islamic Art - Auditorium

Fee: 0 QAR