Death in Gaza | Encounters Mega Archive/Library
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Hot Docs, Canada (2004) – Winner: Audience Award

Silverdocs, USA (2004) – Winner: Sterling Award

BAFTA Awards, UK (2005) – Winner: BAFTA TV Award (Best Current Affairs)

BAFTA Awards, UK (2005) – Nominated: BAFTA TV Award (Best Editing (Factual))

Primetime Emmy Awards, USA (2005) – Winner: Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera)

Primetime Emmy Awards, USA (2005) – Winner: Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming

Primetime Emmy Awards, USA (2005) – Winner: Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking

Primetime Emmy Awards, USA (2005) – Nominated: Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming

Feature
International

2004

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Film Poster

The director of this film was killed whilst making it; however, this powerful documentary is not only about the rights and wrongs of the Palestine/Israeli confrontation. Instead, it presents an impartial view of the influence war has on the innocents.

Caught in the vicious circle of violence that perpetuates the conflict, three children in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah allow us into their world. The construction of the Israeli-guarded security zone claims civilian lives and homes, as the Palestinian paramilitaries use every glorious death to recruit children and groom them for martyrdom. The three children who assist the nightly excursions of the paramilitaries are more scared of their mothers than tanks, and play games that mimic the devastating tools of war, where the winner is a martyr.

Courtesy of HBO Documentaries.