Gaza Grad

When the bombing of Gaza begins in October 2023, Anna and Ghassan Ashour and their daughters Lisa and Donia have a way out, but they stay, because Gaza is home. Only when the violence becomes unbearable do they leave for Russia.

Gaza Grad, by Palestinian filmmaker Sawsan Qaoud, follows the family as the daughters struggle with a language and a country they barely know and eventually move to Egypt to be closer to Gaza and to the hope of going back.

Split across two countries, the family has to learn to live with distance and uncertainty. The film is a quiet portrait of what survival costs, and of a home that cannot be recreated anywhere else. It won the Best Human Rights Film award at the Karama Human Rights Film Festival in Jordan.