On the fifth floor of a building overlooking Ramallah, Sawsan Qaoud receives guests in the offices of her production company. With perfect hair, makeup, and smile, the former correspondent for the MBC channel in the occupied Palestinian territories looks like she just stepped off a TV set. As she pours herself a cup of tea, she reflects: “I was tired of reporting bad news, I want to tell the beauty of Palestine, so I turned to cinema.” After studying audiovisual and film production in Moscow and Cardiff, she released the remarkable documentary Gazagrad last year. The film follows a Palestinian-Russian couple escaping the Palestinian enclave with their two daughters before settling in Russia to start anew. Sawsan Qaoud, with a smile…
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