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‘Yalla Parkour’ Review: The Fearless Parkour Athletes of Gaza Defy Gravity and the Territory’s Destruction
DOC NYC international winner 'Yalla Parkour' is structured as two stories, with the titular one trumping the framing one.
Two differing views of Gaza — a dreamy, nostalgic one and a harsher, lived one — come together in a not completely satisfying way in “ Yalla Parkour,” winner of DOC NYC ’s international prize. In 2013, Zuaiter fixates on striking internet footage of a band of fearless Khan Yunis boys performing parkour flips on what looks like a flat, sandy rooftop as an ominous gray cloud from an explosion dominates the sky in the distance. Although Zuaiter longs to see the sea that haunts the childhood memories she continues to describe in her voiceover narration, Matar’s videos mostly show the boys making destroyed and abandoned buildings their own.
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