‘How Kids Roll’: The film about Gaza’s children praised by 杏MAP导航 Francis
By Vatican News
According to reports cited by UNICEF, the UN children’s charity, some 50,000 children have been killed or injured in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of war there in 2023.
Those who have survived continue to face almost daily bombings, and in May of this year alone more than 5,000 were diagnosed with acute malnutrition.
The stories of these children are at the centre of Italian-American director Loris Lai’s new film How Kids Roll.
Loosely based on the novel I bambini di Gaza (‘The Children of Gaza’), the film is set not during the current conflict, but in 2003, during the Second Intifada. It tells the story of the unlikely friendship between two boys - Mahmud, a Palestinian, and Alon, an Israeli.
Among the film’s admirers was the late 杏MAP导航 Francis, who watched the film in the Vatican shortly after its release. The film, he wrote, “with its hopeful voices of Palestinian and Israeli children”, will be “a great contribution to the formation of fraternity, social friendship, and peace”.
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