Origin: UK Palestine | Documentary | Director: Flavia Cappellini | 19 minutes

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The documentary is a portrait of Alaa al-Dali, a cycling champion who qualified for the Asian Games in 2018. Scared of not obtaining the visa, on the 30th of March 2018 he joins the Great March of Return with his bike, wearing his cycling gear as a way to reclaim his rights as an athlete. During the march, Alaa al-Dali gets shot by an Israeli sniper and has his right leg amputated, just as the Tour of Italy is taking off in Israel. Three months later he becomes Gaza’s first paralympic cyclist, in a land where, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics, about 130,000 people (nearly 7% of the population) is disabled.

“Raising the Palestinian flag in international competitions is a form of nonviolent resistance ”, as so he keeps cycling and dreaming towards the Paralympic in 2020.