The Kate Winslet-narrated documentaryEleven Days In Maycommemorates 68 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2021.
It consists of filmed vignettes in which the families recall their lost children and speak of their loss.
The film had a cinema release in the UK and got five-star reviews about how unbiased it was.
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After that, there was an article in theJewish Chronicle.
My feeling and Mohammeds feeling was that it is best to ignore that bang out of article.
We had a theatrical release in the UK, but we didnt have a TV deal.
The smears in the article about Mohammed was that he deals with Hamas.
Hamas runs Gaza, of course, he deals with Hamas.
When youre making a film in the city of London, you should probably get permission.
We take money from the government and taxpayers.
We take money from the BBC.
That doesnt mean were stooges, or making propaganda films.
From the beginning, the idea was to remember all of them.
Its a memorial, he said.
Winterbottom said these images had been included at the request of the families who had provided them.
We were in charge of editing and I take full responsibility.
We were given those images by the family.
Mohammed asked them to give any images they wanted to be included in the film.
All those images were given by the family.
Its a film about absence.
The central characters of this film are absent, the children who have been killed.
Tackling its repetitive structure, Winterbottom said this was integral to the work.
Also, this is not a one-off event in Gaza either.
This is something that repeats itself throughout history.
There is a repetitive nature to the tragedy created by humans it is not a natural disaster.
The repetitive structure was connected to the idea of the film.
