How Kids Roll (2024)
- Original title
- I bambini di Gaza - Sulle onde della libertà
- Directed by
- Loris Lai
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Italy, Belgium, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Palestinian boy and an Israeli boy become friends through their shared love of surfing during the war in Gaza in 2003.
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What happens
How Kids Roll (Italian: I bambini di Gaza – Sulle onde della libertà, lit. 'The Children of Gaza – On the Waves of Freedom') is a 2024 drama film directed by Loris Lai in his feature directorial debut, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Dahlia Heyman, freely inspired by the 2013 Italian novel Sulle onde della libertà (lit. 'On the Waves of Freedom') by Nicoletta Bortolotti. It tells the story of two boys, one Palestinian and the other Israeli, who form an unlikely friendship due to their mutual love for surfing amidst the war in the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada in 2003. It stars Marwan Hamdan, Mikhael Fridel, Tom Rhys Harries, and Lyna Khoudri. The film is a co-production between Italy, United States and Belgium. The film was released theatrically in Italy by Eagle Pictures on 28 March 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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