The Greenhouse - a flower from Palestine by Arianna Pagani

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The Greenhouse - a flower from Palestine

Copyright Arianna Pagani 2024

Date of Work May 2024 - May 2024

Updated Oct 2024

Location Gaza, Palestine

Topics Abandonment, Abuse, Beauty, Children, Civil Wars, civilian casualties, Conceptual, Conflict, Documentary, Faith, Family, Fear, Feminism, Film, Freedom, Friends + Family, Gender, Genocide, Holocaust, Human Rights, Isolation, Loss, Love, Video

Summary

The Greenhouse - a flower from Palestine
Short doc / Finalist at Film for Peace

On 7 October 2023, due to Israeli attack, Haneen and her family escaped from their home in Gaza City: after five displacements, she is now in Rafah, living in a tent, awaiting Israel's imminent invasion. All around there are thousands of people like her, living without food, without water, without services.

2500 km away, there is another Palestinian woman, now living in Italy but constantly in touch with her family and friends in Gaza. We will follow her as she navigates a greenhouse in Tuscany, comparing the glass building and its plants to Gaza Strip.

The greenhouse is a place where life blossoms and thrives, but is constantly threatened by destruction, like the Gaza Strip. The flowers are cut, moved in boxes and trucks, thrown away because they are not the ideal and packed in plastic. Just as in the Strip, civilians are bombed, destroyed, displaced, humiliated and hungry while being forced to live in tents.

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