‘Yalla Parkour’ Review: The Fearless Parkour Athletes of Gaza Defy Gravity and the Territory’s Destruction
In “Yalla Parkour,” two contrasting perspectives on Gaza, one romanticized and another harshly realistic, collide somewhat imperfectly. This film, a debut feature by Areeb Zuaiter, a director born in Nablus and based in Washington D.C., won DOC NYC’s international prize. Over the course of ten years, this documentary was produced before the events of October 7, 2023. However, the director mentions the devastation of 2024 in a brief prologue and closing credits.