WhatsappThis is a powerful film that documents how the Jewish youth of Gush Katif, Gaza, struggled to win on the basketball court at the same time that they struggled to remain in their homes.
The film chronicles the life of the Netzer Hazani youth basketball team as they play their final tournament before graduating. But this was no regular summer, as the small Gush Katif community was also battling for its life in the final days before the 2005 disengagement plan in the Gaza Strip.
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As I told a reporter in an interview years ago when I produced the movie:
“There are so many powerful and important scenes that convey the atmosphere at the time. Our challenge was to create as moving a film as possible using the dozens of hours of random video footage that had neither one storyline nor any specific characters.”
“Even more challenging was the goal of transforming a movie with rich political content into an apolitical film that people of all religious and political persuasions can gather around and watch together.”
The movie was screened all over the world, self-distributed, back in the years after we produced it in 2006.
Today, is an opportune time to arrange screenings of this important movie once again, to help people better understand the reality of the Gaza situation. Contact avi@12tribefilms.org to organize a screening in your community.
