Arquivo / 49th mostra

A map of Gaza, its cities, camps and neighbourhoods. White paint on a black floor. In the roughly drawn outlines, nine refugees who were able to escape hell tell their stories. Their previous lives, their buried dreams, the danger, the rubble, the loss of dear ones. Oppressed, hindered existences, but not yet reduced to ashes, not yet totally plunged into oblivion and darkness. By sharing their stories, the protagonists of “Who Is Still Alive” attempt to reconnect with themselves, to stop being ghosts. To come back, perhaps, to life.

Winner of the Cinema & Arts Award in the Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival.