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Original Film Title: The Miracle of Gaza
Director’s Name: Hala Bousaab
Writer’s Name: Hala Bousaab
Producer: Hala Bousaab
Country of Origin: Lebanon
Country of Filming : Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, State of
Language: Arabic
Runtime: 51 minutes 59 seconds
Film Description:
In war-torn Gaza, children´s playful chants and songs compete with war planes and missiles, daily. Halima, a six-year old girl, was hurled away from her brother after an Israeli airstrike. She was thought dead after the fatal injury to her brain and buried. It wasn’t until her cousin discovered her barely moving finger that the story of a child martyr would transform into one of rebirth, and an embodiment of hope.
‘The Miracle of Gaza’ narrates Halima’s survival story through her eyes as well as by those who saved her, helped her and loved her along the way.
The documentary sheds light on the tormenting trauma of war endured by Gaza’s chirldren, reflecting the voice of those whose innocence was stolen from them, and confronts the horrors of war through the eyes of a child and the resilience of a girl who chose to continue to sing louder than war plane roars.