Thirteen in Gaza

Hosam Abu Dan (Dir), 77 minutes, Palestine, Western New York Premiere

In Arabic w/ English subtitles.

Raghad (Mary Ziyara), a 13-year-old girl, has lost her home and most of her family in a bombing in the Gaza Strip. She now lives with her father (Firas Al-Masri) in a displacement camp, where she’s entering puberty in a crowded environment devoid of safety, privacy, and care.

Palestinian director Hosam Abu Dan makes his narrative feature debut with a nuanced and deeply human portrait of a father and his teenage daughter navigating everyday life in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

Many thanks to Watermelon Pictures.