Journal de la Rue Gabrielle

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Journal de la Rue Gabrielle, is a 2021 Palestinian movie. directed by Rashid Masharawi.

Overview

Journal de la Rue Gabrielle is an autobiographical documentary filmed by a Palestinian director stranded in Paris's Montmartre neighbourhood during France's COVID-19 lockdown. As borders closed and the city fell silent, the filmmaker found memories of Palestine flooding back, merging with his Parisian daily journal in unexpected ways. The pandemic becomes a lens through which one virus awakens memories of others — occupation, siege, confinement — drawing quiet but potent parallels between political dispossession and pandemic isolation. A meditative personal film about memory, exile, and the strange echoes of history.

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