Aisheen, Still alive in Gaza

Documentary by Nicolas Wadimoff

86 minutes – 2010
Switzerland – Qatar

Synopsis

« Where is the ghost town? », asks the little boy to the theme park attendant. « It’s there, right there. But it has been bombed… Do you want to see it? » It is with these words that the film, « Aisheen», begins – an impressionist journey through a devastated Gaza after the war. And the ghost town? Gaza is the ghost town.

Production

Co-production with:
JCC – Jazeera Children’s Channel (Qatar)
RTS Radio Télévision Suisse

Festivals & Awards (selection)

40. Berlinale, Internationales Forum des Jungen Films, Berlin, 2010
– Preis der Ökumenischen Jury –

16. Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma, Nyon, 2010
– Mention spéciale du Jury du Jeune Public –
– Prix Buyens-Chagoll –

11. Moqavemat International Film Festival, Teheran, 2010
– Best Film Award Gaza Section –

17. Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto, Competition, 2010

63. Festival del film Locarno, 2010

53. Leipziger International Festival für Dokumentar und Animationsfilme, 2010

25. Festival international du film francophone de Namur, Competition, 2010

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Sales & Distribution

World Sales: Autlook Filmsales

Distribution Switzerland: Filmcoopi Zürich
Distribution France: Solaris Distribution

Trailer:

Clowns that try to make children forget the bombing, armed with rubber balloons; a beached whale, “as big as a building” that feeds the fantasy; a scrawny, stuffed lion, bizarrely hanging in a cage at a zoo as if it were a trophy. A woman, at the side of the road, who has already been waiting for three weeks for a petrol delivery…

“Aisheen” (Still alive in Gaza) tells the story about the wait after the disaster. The wait for a better future inside the biggest prison in the world.

Through encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. “Aisheen” is a tribute to life…

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Credits

Directed by: Nicolas Wadimoff
Written by: Nicolas Wadimoff, Béatrice Guelpa (in collaboration)
Production: Faycal Hassairi (JCC), Nicolas Wadimoff (Akka Films)
Co-production: Irène Challand et Gaspard Lamunière (RTS)
Cinematography: Franck Rabel
Editing: Karine Sudan
Location Sound Mix: Monther Abou Eyada
Sound Mix: Denis Séchaud
Music: Darg Team

Awards

16. Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma, Nyon, 2010
– Mention spéicale du Jury du Jeune Public –
– Prix Buyens-Chagoll –
40. Berlinale, Internationales Forum des Jungen Films, Berlin, 2010
– Preis der Ökumenischen Jury –
11. Moqavemat International Film Festival, Teheran, 2010
– Best Film Award Gaza Section –

Festivals

32. Festival Cinematográfico internacional del Uruguay, Montevideo, 2014
10. Dokufest, International Documentary and Short Film Festival Prizren, 2011
29. Festival Cinematografico internacional del Uruguay Montevideo, Competition, 2011
13. BAFICI, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independente, 2011
46. Solothurner Filmtage, 2011
13. RIDM, Rencontres internationales du documentaire Montréal, Competition, 2010
8. CPH:DOX, International Documentary Film Festival Copenhagen, 2010
4. Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, 2010
23. Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, 2010
Viennale Internationale Filmfestwochen Wien, 2010
53. International Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilme, 2010
8. Doclisboa, Festival internacional de cinema documental Lisboa, Competition, 2010
25. Namur, Festival international du film francophone, Competition, 2010
12. Festival do Rio, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, 2010
11. Moqavemat International Film Festival, Teheran, 2010
63. Festival del film Locarno, 2010
31. Durban International Film Festival, Competition, 2010
7. Planete Doc Review Warsaw, 2010
25. Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München, 2010
17. Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto, Competition, 2010
16. Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma Nyon, Competition, 2010
40. Berlinale, Internationales Forum des Jungen Films, Berlin, 2010