Here is a tale from pre-7 October Gaza, on whose optimist energy subsequent events now cast a gloomy shadow. Almost 10 years ago, young Palestinian film-maker Mohamed Jabaly came from Gaza City to the Tromsø film festival in northern Norway with his much admired documentary Ambulance, about his time volunteering with an ambulance crew in Gaza in 2014. But the Rafah crossing with Egypt, Gaza’s only entry and exit point, was closed by Israel while Jabaly was away and he found himself stranded in the city. He used the time to shoot this documentary about his exile and about the...