Eleven Days in May

In 2021, in the 11 days between May 10 and 21, the Israeli bombardment of Gaza killed more than 60 Palestinian children.

This film is a stark, emotional memorial to some of these children, told through family testimonials, home footage, and images of young lives, lived and lost.

In a stark and repeating pattern, day after day, family after family, their stories unfold: siblings laugh and cry as they recall their shared childhood; grieving parents relive painful details of the bombings and create memorial tableaux of their children’s belongings; cousins, aunts and neighbors paint a picture of childhood and family life in Gaza.

On some days entire families were all but wiped out. In a single attack, a man lost his wife and three children, all under the age of 10. Another attack killed four siblings from the al-Hadidi family – the eldest, Yousef, was 11 years old. The families address the viewer directly. They share the joys of life before and the pain of funerals after, in a simple yet powerful story of 11 devastating days in Gaza.