Hassan
Muhammad Alshareef / Palestine, France & Qatar / 2025 / 30 min
A 17-year-old Palestinian is trapped by need amid Gaza’s starvation war. His dangerous attempt to fetch a sack of flour ends with a lone fifteen-month journey from north to south Gaza.
When the starvation war in northern Gaza intensified, Hassan, a 17-year-old boy, never expected that his dangerous attempt to bring home a sack of flour would end with four days of detention, followed by fifteen months of forced displacement from the north to the south of Gaza. During this time, he lived alone in exile, moving from one overcrowded shelter to another, searching for food and a place to sleep, while repeatedly trying to reunite with his family scattered between loss and waiting.
He lost his younger brother before displacement, and his father during the expulsion. The haunting desire to return home never left him, driven by the hope of being close again to what remained of his family — his mother and sister.