Gaza Surf Club (2016)

Directed by

Mickey Yamine, Philip Gnadt

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a group of young surfers in the Gaza Strip as they find moments of joy and freedom on the Mediterranean coast. It also tracks one surfer's trip to Hawaii as he pursues his dream of starting a surf club back home.

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What happens

Gaza Surf Club is a 2016 German documentary film directed by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine. The film takes a "day in the life" approach and follows the story of a group of Gazans who practice surfing as a source of freedom in the Mediterranean Gaza Strip coast. Also, the journey of the young Ibrahim, one of the surfers who travels to Hawaii looking for opportunities to create a surfing club in the Gaza Strip. The documentary took 5 years of filming, and it was screened for the first time in the Documentaries section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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