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Gaza Sderot - Life in Spite of Everything

Gaza Sderot - Life in Spite of Everything

Based on the multi-award-winning internet project on daily life in Gaza City in Palestine and Sderot in Israel, GAZA SDEROT – LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING documents regular people in each town on the opposite side of the border over two months leading up to the 2008 Gaza War. The stories were aired on a website where users had access to the videos, blogs, forums, and links. The film goes beyond these stories and shows the people behind them.

An internet project turned feature film reporting the people's lives and their survival on a daily basis. Under difficult living conditions and the threat of air attacks and bombings, they keep on working, loving and dreaming. Life in spite of everything.

In order to document this will to live, short chronicles (2 minutes each) were shot by both Palestinian and Israeli teams, day after day for two months. These short stories followed seven characters from Gaza City and seven from Sderot that were uploaded to a specially designed website every week. The viewers had a personal, interactive, and non-linear access to these contents and were able to follow them intimately for 10 weeks.

The film consists of the clips from the website and goes beyond reconstructing the filming, showing a new point of view.

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