Zawya Cinema to Screen Gaza-Filmed Docu-Series ‘From Ground Zero’

As part of the 8th edition of Cairo Cinema Days, Downtown Cairo’s Zawya Cinema will host the Egyptian premiere of ‘From Ground Zero’, a series of 22 short films produced in Gaza under siege. The screening begins on April 24th, with all films subtitled in English.

The initiative was launched by veteran Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi to create space for filmmakers from Gaza to tell their own stories—first-hand perspectives that are often erased or sidelined in global coverage of the ongoing war. The project brings together fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental film to explore daily life, memory, displacement, grief, and resistance in a war-torn context.

Tickets are priced at EGP 100, with the full screening schedule to be announced by Zawya Cinema in the coming days.