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With Hasan in Gaza

Cinéma / KinoCulture / Kultur

The Power of Narrative Language in Documentary Filmmaking  — Selected examples

Stories created from scratch on an equal footing with fiction, collages of time fragments; juggling formats, frame widths, film colors; building bridges between the past and the present, searching for the truth about people, society, and eras. Documentary filmmakers continue to surprise us, filtering stories already told by fate through their own sensibilities and needs. Here are a few of this year’s titles that seduce us with their creativity, freshness, and courage, all of which are both narrative and formal. (…)

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Cinéma / KinoCulture / KulturLocarno 2025

Locarno 2025 – Concorso : With Hasan in Gaza de Kamal Aljafari, ou l’archive vive qui défie l’effacement – Rencontre

Présenté en Compétition internationale au Festival de Locarno 2025, With Hasan in Gaza de Kamal Aljafari n’est pas qu’un film : c’est un sursaut de mémoire, une résurrection fragile d’un monde à présent en ruine. Conçu à partir de trois cassettes MiniDV tournées en 2001 et miraculeusement redécouvertes en pleine destruction de Gaza, ce documentaire est autant un poème qui transcende le simple témoignage qu’une archive à brûle-pourpoint. (…)

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