Documentary filmmaker Mariam Shahin meets Gazans and displays on how conflict has lowered their hopes and desires to rubble.
Mariam Shahin has been making movies about Gaza for over thirty years. She’s additionally made many documentaries and quick movies for Al Jazeera English because it launched in 2006. When she moved to Gaza in 2005, she felt a robust sense of optimism following the Israeli withdrawal. However by 2009, conflict had badly broken its infrastructure, neighbourhoods, companies and communities – and that optimism had evaporated.
Now, within the wake of the much more damaging conflict that started on seventh October 2023, Mariam seeks out the individuals she has met in Gaza through the years – and displays on the wasted potential and devastated lives after sixteen years of blockade and a 12 months of one of the crucial damaging wars in Center East historical past.
