He roams the streets of the Strip to show animated films
“Cinema Bus” .. A colorful dream come true for the children of Gaza
Children enjoy watching cinema in Gaza.
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The cinema bus shows daily, through its internal and external screens, a selection of various films.
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In a hurry, the girl Aseel Bisharat brought "popcorn", to book an appointment with an event that is the first of its kind for her and the besieged children of Gaza, which is watching international animated films on a cinema screen.
The eight-year-old girl Aseel went to board the bus, which has a unique shape and bright attractive colors, to sit while holding a can of "popcorn" in her hand on one of the 63 seats inside the "cinema bus", which was located inside the Modern Basma School in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in the south. west of Gaza City.
The little girl, Bisharat, had the opportunity to watch her favorite movies on the cinema bus screen, during his daily tours between the streets of the Gaza Strip and its various areas, in order to watch animated films, accompanied by a group of youngsters, to spend enjoyable times, in an interesting and rare experience.
The experience that the child Aseel spent is experienced daily by hundreds of children in the Gaza Strip, thanks to the “Cinema Bus” project and initiative, which was launched by the local “Save the Youth Future Society” to entertain the children of the Strip and alleviate the psychological crises that afflict them as a result of the continuing wars, through A new method not familiar to the young people of Gaza, which is to spread the culture of cinema among them.
A dream come true
inside the seats of the “cinema bus”, which was shown to a group of children in the courtyard of the Modern Basma School in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood. It was a state of complete integration between the children and the films shown, while signs of joy and happiness smiled on their faces, to introduce a mobile cinema screen inside the besieged Gaza .
The eight-year-old child, Islam Abu Shaweesh, was eating popcorn, while watching with all his senses, accompanied by a group of Modern Basma School students, the animated movie "Zootopia".
Child Islam says: "I am living a beautiful experience that I wished for while watching children on TV screens frequent cinemas, to watch their favorite films."
He continues: "Today my dream came true, and I sat in front of a cinema screen, and watched a group of animated films, the most important of which was the movie Zootopia, and I hope that the cinema bus will permanently show the international films that children prefer."
After the performances that Abu Shaweesh watched on the large cinema screen, the 12-year-old girl, Lana Dais, accompanied her schoolmates through the stands of the cinema bus, went up to watch the animated movie “Ferdinand” the huge bull.
The child, Lana, expressed her great happiness at watching animation shows and documentaries on the cinema screen, and she says, after the end of the first show of the movie “Ferdinand”: “I felt like I was sitting in cinemas that we had not seen before, and we were watching her pictures on TV, Where I sat next to my colleagues eating popcorn, and watching the huge bull movie with utmost integration and enjoyment. It was a beautiful and strange experience for us, the besieged children of Gaza.”
Cinematography Tours The Cinema
Bus displays daily, on its internal and external screens, a selection of various films, aimed at spreading the values of tolerance and non-violence, after a wave of killing and destruction that they lived through for 11 continuous days, during the last war on the Strip, in the middle of last May, according to a coordinator The Cinema Bus Project, Mahmoud Al-Harbawi.
"Given the tragic situation faced by the children of Gaza, and the lack of cinemas in the Strip, we decided to launch the idea of (the cinema bus), which is funded by the European Union," says Al-Harbawi.
He adds that "(the cinema bus) is a moving object, through which we reach the heart of refugee camps, schools, kindergartens, and clubs, as well as to remote border areas, and marginalized, to spread an atmosphere of joy and happiness among young people everywhere."
The coordinator of the Cinema Bus project indicated that the cinema bus presented cinematic shows suitable for the ages of children, for nearly 28,000 children, by participating in initiatives and entertainment days, in all areas of the Gaza Strip from its south to its north.
He points out that the cinema bus aims to show cinematic films in the absence of an animated or static cinema in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the films shown aim to renounce violence and promote the values of tolerance, love and moral values among different segments, especially children.
Two screens for 500 children
The Cinema Bus Project Coordinator Mahmoud Al-Harbawi said that the “cinema bus” is equipped with an internal screen and an external one. for the rise of people of determination.
Al-Harbawi continues, saying that the external display of the cinema bus is an external display screen, which takes more than one level of display, meaning that the audience is wider with a space sufficient for 500 people outside the bus.
He points out that the cinema bus is equipped with solar panels so that children can watch movie shows without the need for electric current in light of the electricity crisis.
. Child Lana Dais: "I felt like I was sitting in cinemas that we hadn't seen before, and we used to watch her pictures on TV."
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