The Phoenix of Gaza - Film Screening & Director Q&A
Schedule
Sun, 17 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Stade, Hastings, TN34 3, United Kingdom | Hastings, EN
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Join us for a unique screening of this powerful, award-winning documentary from Palestinian-British journalist Yousef Alhelou showing rare footage of Gaza’s beauty, culture and people, filmed just weeks before the genocide began.The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director and a chance to sample his homemade falafel sandwiches.
Yousef visited Gaza in the summer of 2023 to reconnect with the city of his birth, meet his large family and promote Gaza to the outside world as a resilient and vibrant place.
Today, two and a half years into Israel's war of annihilation, this remarkable film stands as a celebration of life and an archive capturing memories of an obliterated land.
It rehumanises the people who live there and represents a piece of enduring heritage.
The film has already won 22 awards including for Best Documentary and Best Director at 5 international film festivals.
Renowned broadcast journalist and film maker Yousef will join us in Hastings for the screening; a journey through rare, breathtaking footage of a vibrant Gaza now lost to history - its historic buildings, bustling markets, serene beaches, olive groves, resorts, and joyful social ceremonies.
His intimate record, captured just before its destruction, has become a priceless archive of a world under siege, showcasing the creativity and resilience of a people who “decorated their prison” and defied collective punishment.
The film transforms into a moving eulogy and a testament to the unbreakable will of the Palestinian people. “The Phoenix of Gaza” is a tragic yet hopeful glimpse of a society that, despite immense suffering, refuses to be extinguished.
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