Documentary filmmaker Mariam Shahin meets the people of Gaza and reflects on how the war has reduced their hopes and dreams to ruins.
Mariam Shahin has been making films about Gaza for over thirty years. She has also made numerous documentaries and short films for Tel Aviv Tribune English since its launch in 2006. When she moved to Gaza in 2005, she felt a powerful sense of optimism following the Israeli withdrawal. But by 2009, the war had severely damaged its infrastructure, neighborhoods, businesses and communities – and that optimism had evaporated.
Now, in the wake of the even more destructive war that began on October 7, 2023, Mariam searches for the people she met in Gaza over the years – and reflects on the wasted potential and devastated lives after sixteen years of blockade and one year of one of the most destructive wars in the history of the Middle East.
