Iman Safi, 19, sits on a bench inside a specially equipped passenger bus, watching a film for the first time in Gaza, thanks to a mobile cinema project launched by the Save Youth Future Society, a Palestinian nongovernmental organization.
“Attending a film screening is a glimmer of hope,” said Safi, a media student at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa University.
It was “an exceptional event that came amid a complete absence of cinemas in the Gaza Strip for religious and societal reasons,” she added in a phone call with Al-Fanar Media.
The “Cinema Bus,” Palestine’s first mobile cinema, hit the road in March 2020, after the Save Youth Future Society raised funds from the European Union.