The Roller, the Life, the Fight

Name: The Roller, the Life, the Fight
Start: 2024-05-30UTC18:45
Location: CINETECA - Plató

Hazem Alqaddi

Elettra Bisogno

Belgium

2023

Spanish Premiere

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Synopsis

They first met between 2018 and 2019, during a screening of a Palestinian film in Brussels. Hazem came from his hometown of Gaza, and Elettra from Italy. They were both studying film in Belgium. From that moment on, cinema was the way they viewed themselves and recognize themselves. In this film, their first feature together, the images are unstable from the urgency to record how impossible transit becomes in the midst of racism, violence and war. Elettra and Hazem's response to this triad is to take a chance on life, passion (cinema or figure skating) and resistance.

Festivals

2024 - Cinéma du Réel - France (confidential) -

Director biography

Hazem Alqaddi

Hazem Alqaddi (1998) is from Palestine, he graduates from the Unrwa Schools in Rafah and arrives in Belgium in 2018 wishful for a new life outside of a besieged Palestine. In Gaza and until today, he is a passionate rollerblader, kitemaker, chef and storyteller. Driven by a desire to connect with people, he discovered filmmaking in 2019 when he co-directed Old Child (2020), and has been recording with commitment ever since to express what's on his heart.

Elettra Bisogno

Elettra Bisogno (1993) was born in Italy and grew up in various european cities. After studying graphic design in Italy, where she specializes in experimental printmaking, she moves to Brussels and instinctively turns to the moving image. She draws inspiration and forges herself from watching and listening to the world, in its beauty and its injustice. Graduating in 2021 from the Kask School of Arts in the cinema section, she emerges as a documentary filmmaker with two short films Ultima Cassa (2018) and Old Child (2020).

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