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\n\tImages speak louder than words, they say. A trailer for With Hasan in Gaza<\/em> from Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari (A Fidai Film<\/em>, Recollection<\/em>, An Unusual Summer<\/em>), which world premieres in the competition lineup of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Aug. 7, abides by that saying. <\/p>\n \n\tBelow, THR<\/em> can exclusively reveal the first trailer for the film ahead of the Swiss festival, which runs Aug. 6-16. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThree MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered,\u201d reads a synopsis of the movie on the Locarno festival website. \u201cWhat started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989 led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe summary also promises \u201ca cinematic reflection on memory, loss, and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAljafari, in a director\u2019s note, describes the film as \u201can homage to Gaza and its people, to all that was erased and that came back to me in this urgent moment of Palestinian existence, or non-existence.\u201d And he highlights: \u201cIt is a film about the catastrophe, and the poetry that resists.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe movie was produced by the filmmaker through his Kamal Aljafari Productions, with the support of the Doha Film Institute, Cnap \u2013 Image\/mouvement, the Gwaertler Stiftung,\u00a0the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Media City Film Festival\u2019s Chrysalis Fellowship, and Atelier 105 \u2013 Light Cone.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\u2018With Hasan in Gaza\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Kamal Aljafari Productions<\/p>\n \n\tThe trailer for With Hasan in Gaza<\/em> now provides a first glimpse of some of the images captured on this trip through Gaza, including kids approaching the camera and a drive along the coastline. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI went to Gaza 24 years ago searching for a friend, without an address,\u201d the filmmaker says. \u201cThis is my first film, which I have never made.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCheck out the trailer for With Hasan in Gaza<\/em> below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Images speak louder than words, they say. A trailer for With Hasan in Gaza from Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari (A Fidai Film, Recollection, An Unusual Summer), which world premieres in the competition lineup of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Aug. 7, abides by that saying. Below, THR can exclusively reveal the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1171,1233,6923,6924,2206,364,5844],"class_list":{"0":"post-13236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-film","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-hasan","11":"tag-homage","12":"tag-locarno","13":"tag-people","14":"tag-trailer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}