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Past Is Present By Lovia Gyarkye With Hasan in Gaza Dir. Kamal Aljafari, Qatar/Germany/France, Cinema Guild In 2001, the Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari set out to find a man he’d known while imprisoned in the late 1980s, when he was only 17. With only his memories, Aljafari embarked on a road trip through Gaza with a guide named Hasan in search of his friend. Together, they captured the realities of an occupied territory and its people on a MiniDV camcorder. Decades later, Aljafari, a c...