From Ground Zero trailer highlights "resilience of the human spirit" in Palestine
From Ground Zero is Palestine's entry for Best International Film at the Oscars.
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From Ground Zero—a collection of 22 on-the-ground stories from Palestinian filmmakers living through horrific violence in Gaza—will surely be one of the most vital films of the year. The feature, which tells its stories through a variety of mediums, will serve as Palestine’s official entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards.
The trailer is both incredibly powerful and deeply harrowing. It features images of Palestinians scooping flour mixed with sand off the ground to eat, parents writing their children’s names on their limbs in case their bodies need to be identified, and people discovering the worst while combing for lost friends in the rubble. “We want to laugh, rejoice, sing, and express our emotions,” one interviewee says (via translated subtitles). “Yes, there are bombings and destruction… But that only increases our challenge to overcome.”