Gaza Surf Club
“When I’m in the sea I feel happy and free”.
Gaza Surf Club was filmed 2012-2016 when it was still possible to escape the grind and hardship of living in the “world’s largest open-air prison” and find personal freedom in the waves of the Mediterranean.
The film focuses on two people: a 23-year-old man dreaming of training in Hawaii, and a teenage girl whose journey to adulthood in Gaza means having to give up life in the waves. There is the usual glorious ‘surfer footage’ alongside a moving profile of an informal, independent group of individuals finding escape via this most free-spirited of sports.
The film’s visuals capture the thrill of the waves and the sense of the beach as a haven from the prison-like existence that characterizes the Gaza Strip.
“It took us four years in the making (including a harrowing war in Gaza during 2014) to finally bring this film to fruition. I believe that we managed to capture some incredibly engaging and unrepeatable moments that narrate a story of a group of people whose similarities with our ‘human condition’ bring out the wrangling contrasts of our differences.”
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