Looking inward at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival
2 May 2013
This year’s festival featured work by filmmakers asking questions for their own community. Read more about Looking inward at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival
Susan Youssef
Film review: Gaza love story triumphs over Israeli obstacles
29 March 2013
Habibi splices an ancient romance with experiences of the second intifada. Read more about Film review: Gaza love story triumphs over Israeli obstacles
Susan Youssef's Habibi, a Gaza feature film a decade in the making, wins major award
21 December 2011
Susan Youssef’s new feature film Habibi has won the award for Best Arab Feature Film at the 8th Dubai International Film Festival. This achievement comes after a decade-long struggle by Youssef to make the film. Last year she wrote for The Electronic Intifada about the trials of making a feature film set in Gaza and what inspired it: Read more about Susan Youssef's Habibi, a Gaza feature film a decade in the making, wins major award
The trials of making a film in Gaza
the Netherlands, Amsterdam 22 March 2010
I am on a plane, on the way back from Palestine to my apartment — a quiet, private place set in rainy Amsterdam. It is there where I will edit my film, a love story set in the Gaza Strip. I have just finished shooting it, the first dramatic feature to be made about Gaza in more than ten years. And it took me seven years of continuous development and fundraising to shoot it. Susan Youssef recounts her experience for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about The trials of making a film in Gaza