Private Project

Yallah Gaza (Ar. & Eng.)

Gaza Strip is a Palestinian Occupied Territory housing over 2 million human beings within 360 km² of land (almost 225 square miles). The population is regularly bombarded maintaining a permanent state of terror and is subjected to Israeli blockade by land, sea and air.
It is as if this people have been refused any semblance of humanity and Gazans feel abandoned by the entire world…but do not give up.
The film underlines their “fury to live” as the camera enters into their society and tries to under-stand how the situation got to this point.
Yallah Gaza explores the historical and geopolitical aspects, Zionism, Palestinian politics, International Rights and Law and the motivation that led the Gazans to recite the renowned poet Mahmoud Darwish: We Palestinians suffer from an incurable disease called “hope”

  • Roland Nurier
    Director
  • Roland Nurier
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 41 minutes
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Roland Nurier

Writer-Director, self-taught filmmaker.
First film in 2019, “The Tank and the Olive Tree, another History of Palestine”, well-received by the public and the critics (30,000 film-goers)Selected to screen in numerous festivals in France and abroad. Lives in the Lyon Region.
President of an association promoting arthouse cinema in the Lyon Region, CLAP in Tarare (69170).
Passionate about cinema and geopolitics.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the festival Palestine en Vue (ERAP: Echange Au-vergne Rhône-Alpes/Palestine)

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Director Statement

After two trips to the West Bank in the Occupied Territories, I needed to comprehend the Palestinians in Gaza, isolated from the rest of Palestine and under a total Israeli blockade since 2007.
Gaza City (which gave its name to the entire territory) was most likely founded in 1500 AC. The Bible mentions Gaza numerous times as an integral part of Palestine, and home to the infancy of Christianity.
Gaza is mentioned in the famous story of Samson and Dalila.
Gaza had always been a junction of peoples and cultures.
Three Israeli wars during the past years left thousands dead or wounded, the majority of whom were civilians. Yet, the Gazans are still a model of resistance…But how is this possible?
We can observe that despite the international aid infused into Gaza and considerable poverty with 50% of the population unemployed, the Gazans continue to survive and go on living, thanks to their courage and self-sacrifice that the observer can only view with respect.
Their society is still structured and organized, but for how long?
Gaza is entirely under the administration of the Hamas and suffers from intra-Palestinian tension, yet continues as a society. Do they have any other choice?
Yallah Gaza attempts to understand “how they can live almost normally” when oppressed to the point that the Occupier refuses them the most elementary human rights.
The film records their daily struggle that keeps despair at bay and how they pass this flame, their culture and their land, onto generation after generation.
Yallah Gaza bears witness to their “fury to live”.
And that the people of Gaza are just normal people who live in a totally abnormal environment!
The film was made possible in part due to a very close collaboration with a French speaking filmmaker, Iyad Alasttal (documentary director and creator of the series “Gaza Stories”).
The French crew filmed the European segments and handled the post-production.