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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Geneva Abdul

‘Nobody can occupy your imagination’: From Ground Zero’s producer on documenting his native Palestine

Boy in a hoodie sits on a slab of concrete reading a book with rubble and part-constructed buildings in the distance
Poignant but with moments of dark humour … From Ground Zero by Rashid Masharawi documents 22 short stories in Gaza. Photograph: Cosmic Cat

Being a Palestinian under Israeli occupation will not help someone make a good film, according to Rashid Masharawi, but a good film-maker will help Palestine.

With his anthology film From Ground Zero (in Arabic: From Zero Distance) he attempts to do just that by bridging the space between the Palestinians in Gaza who have endured a campaign of annihilation behind closed doors to those around the world watching as an incomprehensibly vast tragedy unfolds in real time.

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