24 minutes that will wreck your afternoon — in the best, most necessary way.
An attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic human rights: the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilization.
Direction
Alsharif weaponizes the personal archive against spectacle.
Editing
Collage structure that refuses narrative relief or closure.
Cinematography
Found footage turned into political testimony.
Director
Basma Alsharif
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Premiered at Locarno, where it won Best Emerging Director — rare recognition for Palestinian experimental work in European festival circuits.
The title's bitter irony: 'home movies' usually imply safety, here they document precarity. Alsharif forces us to confront whose everyday gets to be boring.
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