The Apollo of Gaza
MovieTitle | L'Apollon de Gaza |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Jan 15, 2020 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Nicolas Wadimoff |
Production country | Canada, Switzerland |
Production companies | Akka Films, ONF | NFB, RTS |
Run time | 78 min. |
In 2013, a 2,000-year-old statue of Apollo was found near Gaza, only to disappear all of a sudden. Apollo, god of art, beauty and divinations, incites all sorts of rumors, even the craziest ones. The Apollo of Gaza is at once an inquiry and a meditation on history, plunging us into the barely known reality of a territory that is still paying the price of wars and a merciless blockade, but where life also subsists, undefeated. By bringing a little light to the sky of Gaza, the statue and its stupefying story could return some dignity and hope to all people.