For our audience in Los Angeles, you can buy tickets here. All proceeds from this screening will go to The Sanabel Team, a mutual aid group founded by an activist in Gaza in 2018.

In a documentary about ordinary Palestinians reconstructing the Israeli detention center in which they were held, Andoni documents a common reality of life under Israeli occupation: the capture of time between the walls of the prison and the trauma incarceration leaves in its wake. After placing an ad in a Ramallah newspaper seeking former prisoners who were willing to build this set, Andoni assembled his cast. The group embarked on the project together over the course of two months, building the spaces in which they were confined and interrogated, and re-enacting memories of their time there. Through this experiment, individual trauma is welcomed into the collective space the men create together, creating the potential for transformation.

We commissioned researcher and organizer Nasreen Abd Elal to record an interview with Andoni, which we screened in part after the film, and which you can read in full here.

“Ghost Hunting’ is a major cinematic achievement. Beautiful and ugly, powerful and compelling, it utterly condemns the brutality in a wily, witty and devious way that is always totally honest.”
—Mike Leigh

Special thanks to Micah Gottlieb of Mezzanine.

This screening is part of our special series, Besieged: Home, Land, Time, Water, about the spatial politics of settler colonialism in Palestine. You can see the full program here.