A filmmaker's rediscovered footage from 2001 captures a journey through Gaza, guided by Hasan, while searching for an old prison companion. The tapes reveal intimate moments of Palestinian life during a pivotal time.
With this crux – to film, or not to film – With Hasan in Gaza brilliantly centres the need to bear witness as no less than a matter of life and death, preservation and loss, liberation and occupation. -Arron Kennon, Sight & Sound
Its naturalness and rawness are devastating, precisely because the filmmaker knows what these images ultimately portend. It is a film that absorbs, disturbs, and, above all, endures. -Marcelo Paredes, Cinencuentro