“Who is Still Alive, from Swiss Director Nicolas Wadimoff (The Apollo of Gaza, Operation Libertad, Aisheen, The Golden Gloves of Akka), World Premieres on Sept. 3 in the Venice Days Program (Giornate Degli Autori), The Independent Section of the Venice Film Festival Promotted by the Italian Filmmmaker Associations Anaciations and 100autori. But anticipation has already been building”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“A Map of Gaza, Its Cities, Camps, and Neighborhoods. White Paint on a Black Floor. In these Roughly Drawn Outlines, Nine Refugees WHO ABELES. “Their Previos Lives, Their Buried Dreams, The Danger, The Rubble, The Loss of Their Dear Ones. Oppressed, Hindered Existents, But Not Yet Reduched to Ashes, Not Yet. Stories, The Protagonists of Who is still alive Attempt to reconnect with themselves, to stop being ghosts. And, Perhaps, Come Back to Life. ”
Wadimoff, in a Director’s Statement, Highlights: “What the Survivovors of Gaza Have Endured Cannot Be Told with Word
And He Offers: “WHATEVER WORD WE Use for this Campaign of Systematic Destruction and Erasure, Our Common Framework for Undersanding The World Sems to Have Become Infective Inteffective Intefect Not, However, Remain Unheard and Uneseen. ”
Nicolas Wadimoff CourTesy of Cinematheque Suisse/Mathilda Olmi
WADIMOFF ALSO EMPHASIZIZIZESS A HOPE TO Present the Film “Beyond Affiliations and Political Opinions,” Emphasizing: “The Idea Here Is To Give Visability to The Story Numbers.
The Director Even DesCribes the Film As “A Bridge Between the Intimate and Collective Experience of A Devastated People and the Spectators, Who Will Become Witzes.
Thr Can Present Two Exclusive Clips from Who is still alive.
The First Clip Shows Two Men Sharing Some of Experiences. One of Them Talks About Missiles and His Family, Including His Sister’s Fears – Before Tears Start Flowing.
The Second Man Recalls A Visit to A Market in Cairo Whote HE WANTED TO BUY A PAINING – BEFORE MAKING A PAINFUL REALIZATION.
In a Second Exclusive Clip, A Woman Talks About a Harrowing Young Death. And then, A MAN Shares What A Differentnce A Year Makes – and Addresses How Body May Be Elsewhere Now, But His Spirit Is Still in Gaza.