L'Apollon de Gaza
Suiza, Canadá, 2018.
Directed by: Nicolas Wadimoff.
Nicolas Wadimoff (Geneva, 1964) has a long-standing commitment to documenting Gaza. From "Aisheen" (2010) to "The Apollo of Gaza" (2018), his films, screened at Berlinale and Locarno, offer an intimate and poetic view of life under blockade.
Running time: 79 min.
Synopsis
Nicolas Wadimoff returns to the ghosts of Gaza, following the trail of a priceless, vanished bronze statue of Apollo. What remains are the testimonies of those who once saw it—a web of myth, intrigue, and hope. Wadimoff pursues a truth he knows is unreachable, from the fisherman who found the statue in 2013 to potential Hamas conspiracies, using the mystery as a dignified reflection on a war-torn land's past and present.
Nicolas Wadimoff returns to the ghosts of Gaza, following the trail of a priceless, vanished bronze statue of Apollo. What remains are the testimonies of those who once saw it—a web of myth, intrigue, and hope...