How it started...

In 2023, the project began as a simple, auto-generated slideshow on Monear’s phone, created after a visit to his family in Gaza. As life there became increasingly unbearable and his family faced unimaginable loss, that collection of images and videos grew into an urgent act of preservation.

From these fragments emerged a deeply personal documentary—one that traces family memory, everyday moments, and grief—offering audiences a way to see Gaza not as an abstract conflict, but as a home: full of relationships, history, laughter, and love, even amidst the struggle.

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This film is deeply personal.

Monear does not observe Gaza from the outside; he lives it with his family, capturing everyday moments that persist even under threat. The camera follows their laughter, faith, small joys, and routines that make life feel ordinary despite the ongoing violence.

The film intentionally avoids graphic imagery, focusing instead on love, memory, and resilience, showing that Palestinian life is real, full, and human.

Since its release, Gaza Is Our Home has been presented in more than 90 screenings across over 30 cities, including 27 universities, and 7 multi-day-impact programs. By bringing the personal stories of Gaza into classrooms, community centers, and public forums, the film ensures that the lives behind the headlines are encountered as real, lived experiences—remembered not as statistics, but as lives that mattered—and still do.

“When home is erased, memory becomes an act of resistance.”

The Film’s Approach

Community Screenings

Screened in universities, cultural spaces, and community centers, Gaza is Our Home invites audiences to reflect, transforming each viewing into a space for conversation and connection.

Personal Archives

Recovered family footage from Gaza forms the emotional core of the film—an intimate record of life before rupture, carrying forward moments that refuse to disappear.

Living Testimony

Through live storytelling and post-screening dialogue, the film extends beyond the screen—creating space for voices too often unheard and transforming memory into shared witness.

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Because Gaza is not a headline—it is a home.

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Because families existed long before the cameras arrived.

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Because culture, faith, and history endure beyond destruction.

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Because remembering is an act of care.

Why This Film Matters

Cultural & Spiritual Impact

Beyond filmmaking, Gaza Is Our Home is an invitation—to reflect, to feel, and to respond. Rooted in faith and grounded in community, the film creates spaces where Gaza’s story is encountered not as distant news, but as shared human experience.

Screenings in universities, community spaces, and churches become gatherings of witness—where people come together to listen, to hold memory, and to recognize the spiritual and cultural threads that bind us across borders. In these moments, the film moves beyond the screen and into the heart.

From Film to Movement

Creation: Recovering and shaping decades of family footage into a living archive of memory.
Screenings: Carrying the stories into communities near and far, where strangers gather in shared witness.
Discussions: Opening space for dialogue on culture, faith, belonging, and resilience.
Community: Growing a network of volunteers, partners, and collaborators committed to sustaining the work.
Future Projects: Built from memory and determination, the film now seeks support to reach wider audiences—and may give rise to a companion work from unseen archival fragments, carrying Gaza’s story forward.