Gaza's Strawberry Fields: Film Screening and Discussion
Wed, Sep 10
|Purple House Jerusalem
Join This is Not an Ulpan at The Purple House in Jerusalem for a screening of "Gaza's Strawberry Fields" (2006) and a discussion with film makers Ayelet Heller and Osnat Trabelsi
Time & Location
Sep 10, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Purple House Jerusalem, Heleni ha-Malka St 9, Jerusalem, Israel
About the Event
In 2006, Israeli filmmaker Ayelet Heller and her Gazan crew document the agricultural cycle of the fruit and the political events directly affecting the lives of the farmers cultivating those berries. From the strawberry fields of Beit Lahiya we witness the Disengagement, the withdrawal of the Israeli Army from Gaza and its re-entrance after two months, the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections and the closure of the strip that followed. In December, the strawberry fields became a battlefield and the site of a vicious cycle of violence.
Out of these green fields, red fruits, blue skies and the sea, emerges a pastoral image of farmers earning their livelihood by working the land. But in Gaza it is not the laws of nature that rule, but those of the occupation.
This screening has been made possible by Trabelsi Productions and First Hand Films. *The film is in Arabic, Hebrew and Englis…