In early August, the Guardian published a series of aerial photographs of Gaza, taken from aboard a Jordanian military plane. Dating from before and after the Nakba, the images chart a history of Palestine through the transformations of its landscapes. In With Hasan in Gaza, this archival impulse persists, but now Aljafari brings it to bear on his own images. It witnesses their acts of witnessing, while also taking in so much else – markets, the azure sea, families, crowded streetcorners – in a refusal to reduce Palestinian life to suffering. But images can be, as Aljafari affirms with this documentary, a form of memory addressed to the future.