I went to Gaza twenty-four years ago. This is my first film, which I have never made.
Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. This footage now stands as a testament to a place and time that no longer exists. What began as a search for a former prison mate from 1989—a man lost to time and war—led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza, accompanied by Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown.
As the camera moves through Gaza’s streets and landscapes, it captures fleeting moments of everyday life—fragments of a reality now irreversibly altered. ‘With Hasan in Gaza’ transforms this forgotten footage into a cinematic reflection on memory, loss, and the passage of time—capturing a Gaza of the past, and lives that may never be found again.