I was born in Gaza City in 1987, the year that all the cinemas in my city were burned down after a major attack by Islamist groups on everything considered haram, “everything that is forbidden from the Islamists’ point of view,” including cinemas that opened in the early 1940s.
In 2006, Islamist groups took control of the government in Gaza, and since then any work related to cinema or art has been restricted, and we saw the black face of Gaza, “siege, death, war, rockets … etc.” It has become the city of death.
We, the artists, are left with nothing but dreams, it is our only refuge to escape our ugly reality, but unfortunately reality always prevails in the end.
My story with the film is simply that I made a film about the beautiful face of my city, “the fashion industry in the city of wars”
I would have liked to tell a lot about this beauty away from war and death, but unfortunately, while I was working, the reality of death intruded into the story of the film, and all my options became ugly, so I chose the least ugly and the most human.
I chose the voiceover as a platform to express my view of everything here in Gaza.
“I dreamed and they planned” is the phrase that sums up a lot about life in Gaza.
Everyone here plans and dreams of a normal life, but the reality is that the one who controls Gaza plans something else.

#Short Documentary

#Human Rights