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Gazan audiences flock to cinemas amid festival to see Arab, Western and Asian films

Cinema once flourished in Gaza, with audiences flocking to see Arab, Western and Asian films but the movie houses were torched in the First Intifada in 1987 and then burned down again in 1996 during another wave of internal violence.

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The Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival, which opened on Thursday, is showing around 40 films at a recently renovated culture centre, around half dealing with the decades-long conflict with Israel and the rest dealing with human rights issues around the world.