Home Is Gaza, But He Became Stranded In Norway: Palestinian Director Mohamed On His IDFA-Winning Documentary ‘Life Is Beautiful’
deadline.comPalestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly is leaving the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam with a major award: Best Director in International Competition for his film Life Is Beautiful.
But where he goes next is uncertain – he can’t return to Gaza for the time being because the border is closed as the Israel-Hamas war rages on.
Amid the prestige and excitement of premiering a film at IDFA, the world’s biggest documentary festival, his thoughts, for obvious reasons, have been back in his homeland. “Of course, it’s not easy when people come and ask you how are you?
And then what should you say?” he tells Deadline. “It’s really difficult even to speak, but then silence also doesn’t help at this stage in our life.” “Making films,” he continues, “or speaking about it became kind of heavy on our shoulders and then a moment where we just kind of feel our bodies are paralyzed.
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