Gaza Surf Club

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Kategorie: Zukunft Deutscher Film
Show: Friday, 31. March 2017, 10:00 p.m., Mal Sehn

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(Documentary, D 2016), Arab./Engl. with English subtitles, 87 min.Director: Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine
Actors: Ibrahim Arafat, Ali Erheem, Sabah Abu Ghanem et al.
Director of Photography: Niclas Reed Middleton
Production: Mickey Yamine, Stephanie Yamine, Benny Theisen, Andreas Schaap
Editor: Marlene Assmann, Helmar Jungmann

Music: Sary Hany,
Sound: Mohammed Alsousi

FOLLOWING TALK WITH DIRECTOR AND PRODUCTION

Skimpy bikinis, white sand dream beaches and the easy life – the surfers of Gaza have little in common with such Baywatch stereotypes. Instead of palm trees, concrete ruins line the beach. The equipment consists of old wooden boards smuggled across the frontier. And anyhow, water sports are prohibited to women.

Despite or even because of all the adversities, surfing means a lot to the youth in Gaza. Ibrahim dreams of his own surf shop and a trip to Hawaii. As a child, Sabah was a passionate surfer. As a young woman, she is now no longer allowed onto a surfboard and risks a lot for her longing for the sea.

The director PHILIP GNADT, born in 1974 in Bad Soden/Taunus, portrays a generation on the verge of a new era. Trapped in the narrow coastal strip between Israel and Egypt, the young Palestinians associate water sports with political protest, economic hope and the longing for freedom.

In 2013, the project GAZA SURF CLUB (working title: THREE MILE RIDERS) was awarded the Film Funding Award of the ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG.

GAZA SURF CLUB celebrated its world premiere at the TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (TIFF 2016), followed by further screenings at the INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM (IDFA 2016) and the DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (DIFF 2016).

Gaza Surf Club will be also shown on Thursday, 30th March at Hafenkino Offenbach.