Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Karim Satoum | 4 minutes

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In 'Hell’s Heaven', a short film directed by Karim Satoum, a man wakes up in a body bag in Gaza. At first, he is unsure of how he ended up in the thick plastic reserved for the dead. He unzips himself from the bag, and begins walking amidst refugee tents set against a demolished landscape, trying to recount his previous day. He had been sleeping on bare concrete, shivering from the cold, he remembers. He had gone to one of the organisations that offered free washing and burial for the dead. He had asked for a bag, and when initially denied, he had argued, saying: “Don’t I get a bag if I was martyred? I might as well make use of it now.”
And so, he had been given the bag. The thick plastic was his sole respite from the cold, a slim victory in his displacement, his “heaven in hell".

Satoum’s film is one of the works in From Ground Zero, a collection of 22 short films by Gazan filmmakers. The films offer an evocative view of the current reality in Gaza. It aims to highlight the tragedies in the Palestinian enclave, and the measures people have to take to survive.
More information: https://www.masharawifilms.org/from-ground-zero
(Here the movie's title is: Hill of Heaven)