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Yolande Zauberman searches for The Beauty of Gaza (trailer)

ByLeila May 6, 2024May 6, 2024

The French director's new documentary will be presented in a special screening at the next Cannes Film Festival.

“They were a fleeting vision in the night. I was told that one of them came on foot from Gaza to Tel Aviv. In my head I called her The Beauty of Gaza”, reports the synopsis of The Beauty of Gaza.

Silhouette disappearing into the night, women that Yolande Zauberman films sway to the rhythm of the chopped diction of Lucky Love : “Tell me, baby/Do I walk like a guy?/Do I talk like a guy?/Do I stand like a guy?,” sings the Lille in this song taken from his EP Tenderness.

It is with this same tenderness that the director casts her gaze on the life journeys of all these women, of all these souls that she meets in her quest for Belle of Gaza. A short documentary of one hour and sixteen minutes, a dazzling moment which nevertheless opens the doors to an immense and unsuspected twilight world.

With her latest documentary, Yolande Zauberman finalizes a nocturnal triptych begun with Would you have sex with an Arab? And M (awarded the César for Best Documentary Film in 2020). Inextricably linked, these three films all delve into the intimate vagueness of population or questions from the margins: the taboo of sexual relations between Jews and Arabs in the first, pedophilia in orthodox Israeli Jewish circles in the second. And now, the conditions of survival of trans women in Israel.

“The difference between night and darkness is that night still contains lightssays the director. In The Beauty of Gaza, as in the other two films of this trilogy of the night, I seek the light to push back the darkness. What else can enlighten us? The face of a loved one, that of these women, who moved me.”

This intertwining of stories earned Yolande Zauberman a promotion to the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. The Beauty of Gaza will be presented in a special screening before being released on May 29 in French cinemas.

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