One boy. One recorder. A city that refuses to be silenced.

Sixteen-year-old Omar Mansour is a collector of sounds. In the vibrant, crowded streets of Gaza City, he captures the "symphony of the mundane"—the hiss of his mother’s tea kettle, the rhythmic thumping of rugs, and the laughter of his eight-year-old sister, Laila. To Omar, these sounds are proof of life in a world the media only sees as a headline.

But when the sky falls, and his apartment building is reduced to white dust, the symphony turns into a scream.

Heart-wrenching, cinematic, and profoundly moving, Echoes in the Dust is a story of family bonds, the power of a child’s voice, and the defiant beauty of hope in the darkest of times.