Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating,
Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a
record – presented with minimal gloss – of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza by the
Israeli military. Photographed by several Palestinian cameramen both during and
after the offensive, this powerful film by director Vibeke Løkkeberg focuses on
the impact of the attacks on the civilian population. Tears of Gaza makes no overriding
speeches or analyses. The situation leading up to the incursion is never
mentioned. Similar events certainly occurred in Dresden, Tokyo, Baghdad and
Sarajevo, but of course Gaza isn’t those places.
Tears of Gaza
demands that we examine the costs of war on a civilian populace.
(Excerpt from Steve Gravestock, 2011 Toronto International Film Festival)
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