Event

Jalla, Girls! / Gaza Hospital

Jalla, Girls!
Annalisa Vozza
Short Documentary | Italy | 2009 | 30 min.

Honey and Jackline are two young women from Bethlehem determined to follow their dream: football. In Palestine, football played by young women raises many questions. The film hinges on the concept of boundary, a physical but also mental line that separates one country from another, a team from a team. Whether it is gender division, religious constraints, political and geographical demarcations, or simply crossing into the end zone, the boundary is a constant obstacle and challenge that these players must face - inside and outside their community - in a land where dreams are as fragile as peace.

Gaza Hospital
Marco Pasquini
Documentary | Italy | 2010 | 84 min.

Overlooking Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Chatila, the Gaza Hospital used to be the vanguard of health centers run by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and a key part of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's revolutionary project. Enduring the Israeli invasion and Lebanese civil war, destroyed then set up as a refugee camp, it carries the bullets and marks of its past. In exclusive archival footage, International Volunteer health care workers, witnessing the horror and destruction of those days, carry memories permanently marking their lives. Gaza Hospital is a symbol that bears witness to a people that will not give up.