Ambulance

80 min:

A Film by Mohamed Jabaly | 80 min Feature Documentary | Arabic w/ English subtitles | Produced by JABFilm & Idioms Film | Palestine & Norway

Bergen International Film Festival, 20-28 Sept 2016 – In Competition

Wales International Youth Festival, Sept 21

Nordkapp Film Festival, Honningsvåg, Finnmark, Norway, 14-18 Sept 2016

Screening Rights Film Festival, Birmingham UK, Sept 17th 2016

Bertha DocHouse, London, Aug 26 – Sept 1 2016 – DocHouse First

Otherfield Festival 2016, Suffolk UK, July 31st – Special Screening

Sheffield Doc Fest, June 12th 2016 – World Premier

Synopsis

A raw, first-person account of the last war in Gaza in the summer of 2014. Mohamed Jabaly, a young man from Gaza City, joins an ambulance crew as war approaches, looking for his place in a country under siege, where at times there seems to be no foreseeable future. While thousands of things are published on the recurring violence in Gaza, the stories behind them remain hidden. Not this one.

Director’s Statement

The film will be a personal story, as seen through my eyes and the people with whom I worked during the war. The film is about human connections and does not seek to campaign for any political party or policy, nor to assign blame. This is not because I don’t see the urgency of the political debate or the importance of accountability, but because I am a storyteller who believes that personal stories can open the way, show us what we have in common- human decency and human dignity.