{"id":5177,"date":"2021-10-11T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2024-01-24T23:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:51:51","slug":"will-love-triumph-in-the-midst-of-gazas-14-year-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/will-love-triumph-in-the-midst-of-gazas-14-year-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Love Triumph in the Midst of Gaza\u2019s 14-Year Siege?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>Gaza Mon Amour<\/em> is currently screening in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Jordan Elgrably<\/h4>\n<p>A new film from the Nasser brothers invites filmgoers to imagine that Gaza is a teeming center of commerce and human engagement much like any other city.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, the nearly two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, half of whom are children aged 15 or younger, have lived for the last 14 years besieged by sea, air and land, surrounded by Israel\u2019s armed forces, locked down and surveilled constantly by drones. Ninety-one percent of Gazan children suffer from PTSD (according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euromedmonitor.org\/fr\/article\/4503\/Nouveau-rapport-:-91%25-des-enfants-de-Gaza-souffrent-de-TSPT-apr%C3%A8s-l%27attaque-isra%C3%A9lienne\">Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor<\/a>), while half the adults long for escape.<\/p>\n<p>But life goes on. Every day, new couples get married, and every day, Gazans go to work and school. <em>Gaza Mon Amour<\/em> helps us see Gazans as people like us, albeit living under far harsher circumstances. Says co-director Tarzan Nasser, \u201cIn Gaza the sky and the sea are occupied, Gaza is surrounded, so for Gazans there\u2019s no horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet <em>Gaza Mon Amour<\/em> is a romantic comedy in which a senior fisherman named Issa (Salim Daw) secretly pines for widowed seamstress Siham (Hiam Abbass), who lives with her divorced daughter Leila (Maisa Abd Elhadi) in the refugee camp. The two cross paths in the central market where Issa hawks his meager daily catch while Siham mends clothes for women across the way. Late one night Issa trawls up an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets and decides to hide it away at home, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and valuable treasure. Although the statue brings him no end of trouble, at the same time his confidence grows and eventually he decides to approach Siham.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-4d2a1f1ca507e379cdaf904c489684c5 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Gaza Mon Amour TRAILER | AIFF 2021\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8LGXkGXdvR8?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Twin brothers Arab and Tarzan Nasser were born in Gaza in 1988, a year before the last movie houses were shutting down, and a decade before Israel devastated Gaza in the military onslaught they called Operation Cast Lead. The 33-year-old twins have been living in France since their first feature <em>D\u00e9grad\u00e9 <\/em>(<em>Degraded<\/em>) screened to acclaim in Cannes\u2019 Semaine de la Critique, in 2015. They initially got the idea for the story behind <em>Gaza Mon Amour<\/em> in 2013, when a Gazan fisherman brought up an ancient Greek statue from the sea.<\/p>\n<p>In the press notes, Arab Nasser explains: \u201cWe try to avoid the expected clich\u00e9s of Palestinian cinema. Our focus is on human beings, the people of Gaza. Granted, these people know suffering, war, a shitty life, but nevertheless, they live, which means that they have a daily life, love relationships, dreams, hopes. We want to film this, without making the reality of Gaza more beautiful or uglier than it is. We show the daily life of Gaza that foreigners do not know. Even Egyptian viewers are surprised by our films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adds Tarzan, \u201cWe know the problems of the Palestinians, the conflict with Israel, but the Gazans don\u2019t need to talk about it, they live it every day. The Israelis left Gaza in 2005 and [in 2007] closed the borders around it: it is a very small territory cut off from the world &#8230; by filming the daily life of the Gazans, we are filming the conflict even if we don\u2019t talk about it directly. In fact, we film the effects of the conflict rather than the conflict itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5180\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5180\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Directors-Tarzan-and-Arab-Nasser-at-the-Venice-Film-Festival.-Courtesy-La-Biennale-di-Venezia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Directors-Tarzan-and-Arab-Nasser-at-the-Venice-Film-Festival.-Courtesy-La-Biennale-di-Venezia.jpg 800w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Directors-Tarzan-and-Arab-Nasser-at-the-Venice-Film-Festival.-Courtesy-La-Biennale-di-Venezia-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Directors-Tarzan-and-Arab-Nasser-at-the-Venice-Film-Festival.-Courtesy-La-Biennale-di-Venezia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Directors-Tarzan-and-Arab-Nasser-at-the-Venice-Film-Festival.-Courtesy-La-Biennale-di-Venezia-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Directors Tarzan and Arab Nasser at the Venice Film Festival. (courtesy La Biennale di Venezia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In its Sisyphean reality, Gaza is perpetually being persecuted, bombed and devastated, only to be rebuilt and destroyed again at a future date. At the crux of this repetitive drama is the state of Israel, for almost nothing comes in or goes out without Israel\u2019s explicit approval. As Louis Imbert wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/international\/article\/2021\/10\/10\/a-gaza-dans-le-labyrinthe-de-la-reconstruction_6097788_3210.html\">Le Monde<\/a> on Sunday, \u201cThe recovery of the Palestinian coastal strip, devastated during last May&#8217;s war, is hampered by the Kafkaesque regulations imposed by Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the human rights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euromedmonitor.org\/en\/article\/4616\/%E2%80%98Left-in-Tatters%E2%80%99:-Catastrophic-economic-results-of-the-Israeli-attack-on-the-Gaza-Strip-in-May-2021\">catastrophe<\/a> resulting from Gaza\u2019s siege (97% of Gaza\u2019s water is undrinkable), the Nasser brothers wanted to make an old-fashioned, at times absurdist romance, void of propaganda and politics, and they have succeeded, somewhat in the vein of their colleague Elia Suleiman, whose features <em>Chronicles of a Disappearance<\/em> and <em>Divine Intervention<\/em> were likely inspirations for the playfulness and offbeat humor in this film.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5178 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gaza-mon-amour-featured-image-1000p-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gaza-mon-amour-featured-image-1000p-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gaza-mon-amour-featured-image-1000p-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gaza-mon-amour-featured-image-1000p.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The Nassers have hinted that their father, to whom they dedicate <em>Gaza Mon Amour<\/em>, inspired the character of Issa, a spry but lonely man who has never married. Happily for us, actor Salim Daw turns in an utterly absorbing and intimate performance; in sparse dialogue but with great skill, Daw brings the Gazan fisherman to life and in the process creates an indelible character.<\/p>\n<p>Fisherman Issa and seamstress Siham are at an age, entering their 60s, where dreams of love and marriage often remain in the realm of fantasy, certainly in conservative Gazan society. But people are social creatures in whom hope springs eternal, and Issa for his part will not be deterred.<\/p>\n<p>Hiam Abbass has been in so many of the films that have marked our time, from <em>The Syrian Bride<\/em> and Hany Abu Assad\u2019s <em>Paradise Now<\/em> to <em>The Lemon Tree<\/em> and Cherien Dabis\u2019 <em>Amreeka<\/em>, not to mention <em>Miral<\/em> and <em>Peace After Marriage, <\/em>that in a way, I feel I\u2019ve grown up with her. To me Hiam Abbass <em>is<\/em> Palestine. \u201cPalestinians are proud of her,\u201d Arab Nasser notes, and who could quarrel with that assessment? Whenever Hiam Abbass turns up in a movie\u2014including <em>Munich<\/em> and <em>Blade Runner 2049<\/em>\u2014the quality of the film immediately climbs a notch.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the pain and empathy I feel whenever Gaza is the subject of conversation, when the lights went up at the end of <em>Gaza Mon Amour<\/em>, I felt I had just experienced an epic poem devoted to love and to all the people living in the Strip. The film communicates a quiet, incalculable beauty. It reminded me of the magic of cinema, of sitting in a darkened movie theatre, I had nearly forgotten over the past two years of the Covid pandemic. To judge from this second feature outing, Arab and Tarzan Nasser are filmmakers to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Elgrably reviews the new film from the Nasser brothers, starring Hiam Abbass and Salim 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