TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 1

Sounds of Gaza
Screening with: Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Duration: 6 min Director: Ahmad Ghrouz Genre: Short film Year: 2025
Country: Palestine

Description:
The small details of daily life are often the most telling. This moving visual and sonic portrait, "Sounds of Gaza", captures the heartbeat of a people surviving 21 months of an ongoing genocide. In the words of writer and poet Dr. Mariam Qawwash, the video gives voice to the injustice, disappointment, and irreparable loss experienced by Palestinians in Gaza.

More Info: Miftah.org

TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 1

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Once Upon a Time in Gaza
Screening with: Sounds of Gaza

Duration: 90 min Director: Tarzan and Arab Nasser Genre: Drama Year: 2025
Country: France Languages: Arabic with English Subtitles

Description:
Gaza, 2007. Yahya, a young student, forges a friendship with Osama, a charismatic restaurant owner with a big heart. Together, they start peddling drugs while delivering falafel sandwiches, but they are soon forced to grapple with a corrupt cop and his oversized ego …

Cast: Nader Abd Alhay, Majd Eid, Ramzi Maqdisi
Awards: Cannes
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