With Hasan in Gaza (2025)

This feature documentary explores Kamal Aljafari’s two-decade old camcorder footage depicting his search through Gaza for Abdel Rahim, a man he met while imprisoned by the Israeli occupation in 1989.

Traveling through North Gaza to the South with Hasan, a local guide, this urgent story reveals the quiet moments, mourning and poetry of Palestinian existence and resistance.

The film is preceded by Ibrahim Abusitta’s short video work, Operations, composed of video footage of Palestinian resistance and redrawn, frame by frame, as a hand-drawn animation.

The film is followed by a discussion on the struggles of Palestinian prisoners, the role of Palestinian memory workers, and the force of Palestinian resistance with artist Ibrahim Abusitta and organizer Dalia Awwad.

Kamal Aljafari is a Ramala-born Palestinian director, holding a MFA from Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2003). His work commonly explores archival footage, reclaiming the past and revealing everyday life.

Ibrahim Abusitta is a Palestinian-Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. His painting practice examines the intersections of personal archive and political history, with a focus on cultural memory and the nuances of diasporic identity. He is the 2025 recipient of the Laura Ciruls Painting Prize. His work has been featured on the cover of Briarpatch magazine and in the book A Year on the Abyss of Genocide by Mahmoud Al Shaer (ARP Books). Abusitta has exhibited across Canada and the United States.

The Toronto Palestine Film Festival(TPFF) is a volunteer-run, non-profit organization dedicated to bringing Palestinian cinema, music, cuisine and art to GTA audiences. TPFF was conceived in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba.

Labour For Palestine is an organization of labour & trade union members and activists who stand in solidarity with the struggle of Palestinian workers and people.

Whippersnapper Gallery is committed to the underdog artist. “We provide emerging artists and cultural workers with a platform to expand the parameters of their practice and develop ethical, rigorous relationships with communities, particularly racialized, queer, disabled and working class people. Our teeny tiny gallery is viewable by the public 24 hours a day through fully exposed street level windows. Whip is structured to encourage peer-to-peer mentorship and create innovative programming that catalyzes social transformation. We offer space to experiment and confront displacement in the ever-gentrifying urban core in which we are situated. artist-run centre committed to the cultivation of inclusive spaces for emerging visual and media arts, community arts, and experimental forms of exhibition making. We provide artists and cultural producers with a flexible platform and exhibition space to expand the parameters of their professional practice. Whippersnapper is structured to encourage peer-to-peer mentorship and promote success by the artists’ own standards. Through critical and diverse programming, Whippersnapper initiates new relationships and unexpected conversations.”