Gaza we are coming

Greece 2009
Yiorgos Avgeropoulos & Yannis Karypidis
49’

Audience Award, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2010

The Greek-language section of the Festival is topped off with an Audience Award, as Gaza We Are Coming, courtesy of the Exandas team, dominated viewers’ preferences at the recent Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. A few short months before the Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2008, a handful of activists achieved an impossible feat: they broke the naval siege, illegally imposed by the state of Israel on Gaza, for the first time in 41 years. Yorgos Avgeropoulos, an old festival acquaintance, documents this life-affirming mission proving that history is sometimes made by dreamers.