05.02.25, 16:00, The roller, the life, the fight (2024)

On 5 February, at 16:00 KASKcinema screens the film The roller, the life, the fight (2024) directed by Hazem Alqaddi and Elettra Bisogno. The latter is a former film student; this feature debut builds on the master project she also co-directed with Alqaddi.

The film will be followed by a Q&A with the makers.

The roller, the life, the fight (2024)

Hazem arrives in Belgium after a painful journey from Gaza. At the same time, Elettra also arrived in Brussels to study documentary film. Their first moments together are revealing and trigger the desire to get to know each other through the medium of film. The camera becomes the tool for listening to and transforming each other. Through the images of their lives, we are plunged into the details of the meeting of two worlds. The act of recording is an engagement to justice and their movements reveal their wish to resist to a divided society. Hazem and Elettra are confronted with the rigidity of his asylum procedure and must stay strong and united. Will they be able to face it together? It is an exile, an inner migration to reach a place where gazes are softer and more equal.