Kamal Aljafari

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	&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; “To what extent can the real and figural materiality of an image become an abstraction or, potentially more, a spectrum? The question evokes both aesthetic and ethical problems which, in Kamal Aljafari’s cinema, converge towards a territory as real as it is abstract and phantasmagorical: Palestine. While Aljafari’s cinema stems from the observation of an everyday life that not only coexists within, but inhabits ruin itself, he subsequently transforms these images into trails, echoes, smudges, blurs and, in his most radical recent films, pixels uncapturable by notions of the real. The art of transforming the harrowing materiality of broken walls and destroyed terraces of an invaded territory into a disembodied immateriality is the art of reconfiguring Palestine as a nation, which through moving images ultimately surpasses the forces that imprison and destroy that space. An act of defiance. In Aljafari’s cinema, Palestine becomes a shadow that runs faster than the body from which it emanates.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Amidst fragments of memories and images of a people beset with the insignia of erasure, Kamal Aljafari’s cinema presents chapters of an unfinished story, all at once personal and communal. The Palestinian director and artist, born in the city of Ramla, in 1972, and based in Germany for years, has created a poetic filmography marked by restlessness, devising an elaborate mise-en-scene with different modes of resistance against the systematic attempts to destroy subjects, places, and the symbolic field that attest to a Palestinian existence. Over the course of his almost two-decade career, the filmmaker has undertaken a thorough investigation into the forms and politics of images amidst their power games, about what is seen and what has been made invisible, among material and memorial ruins interpolated in the editing room.

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; His oeuvre, comprising four feature films which make up this year’s Focus Section and three short films, is largely affiliated with the world of documentary, although it rallies a variety of different procedures and formats in dialogue with the visual arts as much as the essay and experimental universe. One of the hallmarks of this process lies in the manipulation of images in an attempt to extrapolate their figurative nature – such as the use of domestic surveillance footage from a street camera in his latest feature film, An Unusual Summer (2020, 80′), whose Brazilian premiere will happen during this year’s Olhar de Cinema. From the interviews in his first short film Visit Iraq (2003, 23′), filmed in Geneva, to the fictional venture in Port of Memory (Minaa Al Zakira, 2009, 62’), which explores the gentrification of the city of Jaffa, through the re-editing of film archives in Recollection (Istiaada, 2015, 70’) as it strives to occupy these forbidden territories, each work updates and reconfigures the filmmaker’s path, which exists alongside his family’s trajectory, creating other times and affective dispositions through sounds and images. As in The Roof (Al Sateh, 2006, 63′), the director’s debut feature film, whose title refers to the never-finished ceiling of his parents’ house, the films in this year’s Focus section reveal a never-ending community building process, a sharing rooted in the typical movements of everyday life – whether a house, a street, or a neighborhood – which unites people and remembrances, both present and absent.”︎︎︎From Olhar de Cinema


	RELEASED FILMS
2024&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; A Fidai Film
2024&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; UNDR
2022 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Paradiso, XXXI, 108
2020&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; An Unusual Summer

2019 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; It’s a Long Way
From Amphioxus

2015&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Recollection
2010&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Port of Memory
2007&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Balconies
2006&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; The Roof
2003&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Visit Iraq


	IN PRODUCTION
Beirut 1931
Kamal Aljafari Productions is based in Berlin making fiction, non-fiction, and contemporary art. It was created after a decade-long experience of film creation by Kamal Aljafari.


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ONGOING &#38;nbsp;


RETROSPECTIVE6th-11th May 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ Documenta Madrid
El Festival Internacional de Cine del Ayuntamiento de Madrid se celebrará del 6 al 11 de mayo de 2025 en Cineteca Madrid, Filmoteca Española, Museo Reina Sofía, ECAM, Casa Encendida y Fundación Casa de México.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.documentamadrid.com/actualidad/documenta-madrid-y-filmoteca-espanola-celebran-la-obra-de-kamal-aljafari-con-una?fbclid=IwY2xjawJnFaxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHkQQOpr1YC_QfKCAYv7plUNyqwdGIqV7U_bk8W8W6duqzx5JJQMhEInPd5Y8_aem_YdpHaGXxPSFf5_uZGt3c5Q


	VIVES ARCHIVES &#124; Rétrospective Kamal Aljafari21st - 22nd April 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ Aflam, Marseille
Retrospective and masterclass by Kamal Aljafari.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.aflam.fr/vives-archives-retrospective-kamal-aljafari/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJnFPtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHqoPq5HvX_Ywy5OXDmS47CAPHPDdBE2bRfId_OdRigEh_30Hf1euvprc0KAu_aem_WEk1c5q-rFWOJZG4BcLSLg
	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING2nd May 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ Alchemy Film &#38;amp; Arts, Hawick
A Fidai Film will be screened at Alchemy Film &#38;amp; Arts.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/festival-2025-screenings-feature-a-fidai-film/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJnFaNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHv-Rh1iOM_pcLWCWkdbAi21uKiXdFyCq0n-5jWqqADmwR5a1UlRC41tEsJvO_aem_RFfKrS8SoMWkK_CFJCnUvQ


	A FIDAI FILM: Screening and Discussion15th April 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ Reid Hall, Paris, April 15th, 7pm
Filmmaker and fellow Kamal Aljafari presents his documentary film, A Fidai Film (2024), which won the grand jury prize at the Visions du Réel. The screening will be followed by a discussion between Aljafari and the writer Adam Shatz.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/events/a-fidai-film-screening-and-conversation/
	A FIDAI FILM / BALCONIES / PARADISO, XXXI, 108 / UNDR20th - 23th March 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ La Inesperada, Barcelona
Kamal will be in conversation with Xavier Bassas after the screening of A Fidai Film.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://lainesperada.cat/en/atomica-eng/
PAST &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;
	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING
7th - 9th March 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ Luxemburg City Film Festival, Luxemburg
A Fidai Film will be screened in Luxemburg
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.luxfilmfest.lu/films/a-fidai-film/
	“A FIDAI FILM” SCREENING
February 21st 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ KM24, Berlin
A Fidai Film will be screened at On Strike:&#38;nbsp;Screenings &#38;amp; talks about striking Berlinale.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.instagram.com/on.strike.berlinale/
	“A FIDAI FILM” GRAN PRIX AT FESTIVAL EN VILLE February 2nd 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ Brussels
A Fidai Film got the Gran Prix - Agnès.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.festivalenville.be/?lang=fr
	KAMAL ALJAFARI WILL BE MAIN GUEST AT LA INESPERADA February 20th – 23rd 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ La Inesperada – Festival de cine, Barcelona
A Fidai Film will be screened in the Atòmica Section of the festival La Inesperada. Moreover, Balconies, Paradiso, XXXI, 108 and UNDR will be screeed in a Short Film Session.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://lainesperada.cat/en/atomica-eng/


	THE MUSEUM OF DAYS January 30th 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ Reid Hall, Paris
In this presentation, Kamal Aljafari will be exploring ideas and thoughts drawn from a decade-long filmic practice, which led him to believe that images are not something that you make–but something that you find.Part of the Fellows’ Talks of the Institute of Ideas and Imagination of the Columbia University in Paris.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/events/the-museum-of-days/
	ROUND TABLE: POLITIQUE DU FOUND FOOTAGE January 29th 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ Forum des Images, Paris
With Kamal Aljafari (director), Christa Blümlinger (professor of film studies), and Noah Teichner (artist and researcher). Hosted by Occitane Lacurie (film critic and member of the editorial board of the journal Débordements).
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.forumdesimages.fr/table-ronde-politique-du-found-footage

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	SCREENINGS AT FESTIVAL EN VILLE!January 28th – 29th 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ BrusselsScreening of A Fidai Film in the International Competition, and Port of Memory in a Special Screening dedicated to the memory of Gilles Laurent.︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.festivalenville.be/-Competition-Internationale-462-?lang=fr︎︎︎https://www.festivalenville.be/-Focus-cineaste-Kamal-Aljafari-?lang=fr
	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING January 17th 2025︎︎︎︎︎︎ Écrans du réel, Beirut
A Fidai Film will be screened at Metropolis Cinema in Beirut.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://metropoliscinema.net/film/656/A+Fidai+Film

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	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING and STREAMING December 9th - 30th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎ Media City Film Festival, Windsor–Detroit
A Fidai Film is available for streaming in the virtual lineup of The Media City Film Festival for 2024 through Dec. 30.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/festival/27th-edition/
︎︎︎https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/movies/international-movies-streaming.html
	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING December 5th - 15th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎ Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival
A Fidai Film will be screened at the Greek Film Archive, Athens.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎http://www.tainiothiki.gr/en/13aagff


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	KAMAL ALJAFARI RETROSPECTIVE December 2nd – 7th 2024︎︎︎ Human Rights Film Festival (HRFF), ZagrebRetrospective of Kamal Aljafari’s works in Zagreb.︎︎︎https://www.humanrightsfestival.org/human-rights-film-festival-program
	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING December 2nd 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎ Palestine Filmer C’est Exister, Geneva, Spoutnik
Screening of A Fidai Film in Geneva.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://palestine-fce.ch/films-evenements/a-fidai-film/


	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING December 2nd 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎ Marrakech International Film FestivalMaroccan premiere of A Fidai Film in Marrakech.
︎︎︎https://marrakech-festival.com/en/home/


	A FIDAI FILM AWARDNovember 30th 2024︎︎︎ Muestra de Cine de LanzaroteA Fidai Film got the Best Film Award at the Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote. Thanks to the jurors:&#38;nbsp;Claire Allouche,&#38;nbsp;Melchor López,&#38;nbsp;Vicente Monroy.︎︎︎https://muestradecinedelanzarote.com/premios-y-jurado/


	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING November 28th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎ forumdoc.bh Festival do Filme Documentário e Etnográfico de Belo Horizonte
Screening of A Fidai Film in Belo Horizonte.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.forumdoc.org.br/
	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING November 17th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎ Fondazione Prada, MilanoProiezione di A Fidai Film Fondazione Prada.
Segue una conversazione tra il regista Kamal Aljafari e Sergio Fant, co-direttore artistico di Archivio Aperto.
In collaborazione con Archivio Aperto e FESCAAAL.
︎︎︎https://ticketing.fondazioneprada.org/ticketing/UIPublic/CinemaDettaglio.aspx?idEvento=29412


	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING&#38;nbsp;November 15th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎ Sharjah Art Foundation
Screening of A Fidai Film as the opening film at Sharjah Film Platform 7 (SFP7).︎︎︎https://ticket.sharjahart.org/Home/Details?E=MTAyODA~EQ~&#38;amp;L=NA-1

	
A FIDAI FILM SCREENING November 14th - 24th&#38;nbsp;2024︎︎︎︎︎︎ IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Screening of A Fidai Film in Signed section at IDFA.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://festival.idfa.nl/en/film/3439d8a6-0dfb-4e6e-a138-7030758eb29f/a-fidai-film/

 
	KAMAL ALJAFARI RETROSPECTIVE 
November 8th – 14th 2024︎︎︎ Anthology Film Archives, New YorkRetrospective of Kamal Aljafari’s works curated by Inney Prakash.︎︎︎http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/58435
	
KAMAL ALJAFARI RETROSPECTIVE – Silver Series #9November 7th – 24th 2024︎︎︎ Kunsternes Hus, OsloRetrospective of Kamal Aljafari’s works curated by Abirami Logendran.︎︎︎https://kunstnerneshus.no/en/program/exhibitions/kamal-aljafari


A FIDAI FILM SCREENINGNovember 2nd 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Nuova Orfeo, Palermo
Screening of A Fidai Film alongside Rosalind Nashishibi‘s work, curated by Nuova Orfeo. An evening in collaboration with Claire Fontaine. Dedicated to the victims of the genocide perpetuated by the Israeli government.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.nuovaorfeo.it/en/
	A FIDAI FILM SCREENINGOctober 18th - 28th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎SEMINCI - Valladolid International Film Week
Screening of A Fidai Film at SEMINCI.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.seminci.com/en/peliculas/a-fidai-film/


UNDR SCREENINGOctober 21st - 27th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Uppsala Short Film Festival
UNDR will be screened at Uppsala Short Film Festival.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://shortfilmfestival.com/en/program-2024/internationella-tavlingssektionen-2024/brannpunkter-ic2/
	

A FIDAI FILM AND UNDR AWARDSOctober 18th - 28th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine
A Fidai Film got the Best International Film.UNDR got the Best International Short Film.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://limaalternafilmfestival.com/


A FIDAI FILM AND UNDR SCREENINGOctober 17th - 27th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Transmutación Cine Contemporaneo, Mexico
A Fidai Film and UNDR will be screened at the festival Transmutación Cine Contemporaneo.
A Fidai Film was awarded with the Jury Special Mention.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://transmutacioncine.com/peliculas/a-fidai-film/︎︎︎https://transmutacioncine.com/peliculas/undr/


A FIDAI FILM and UNDR SCREENINGOctober 17th - 22th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival
Screening of A Fidai Film and UNDR at Viennale.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.viennale.at/de/film/fidai-film


	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING October 14th - 20th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎FICValdivia, Chile
Screening of A Fidai Film at FICValdivia as the Central Film of the festival.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://ficvaldivia.cl/en/ficvaldivia-announces-central-film-and-tributes-for-31st-edition-2024/

	
A FIDAI FILM SCREENING &#38;amp; NOMINATIONS October 9th - 13th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎MIRAGE Film Festival, Oslo
Screening of A Fidai Film at MIRAGE.The film has got the MIRAGE Sound Design Award. and it has been nominated for MIRAGE Editing Award.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.mirage.no/films/a-fidai-film
︎︎︎https://www.mirage.no/nominated


	A FIDAI FILM and UNDR SCREENING October 9th - 20th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎London Film Festival, BFI
Screening of A Fidai Film and UNDR at BFI.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.ica.art/films/a-fidai-film-lff

	
A FIDAI FILM SCREENING October 8th - 13th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux
Screening of A Fidai Film in Bordeaux.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://www.fifib.com/en/film/a-fidai-film


	A FIDAI FILM SCREENINGSeptember 25th - 30th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo
Screening of A Fidai Film in Sarajevo.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://pravoljudski.org/films/a-fidai-film/
	
SPECIAL MENTION UNDR&#38;nbsp;September 24th - 29th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, BIEFFUNDR was awarded a special mention at the 14th edition of the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF)!

This year's jury brought together Niels Putman, Morena Faverin and Azin Feizabadi.︎︎︎https://bieff.ro/en/bieff-2023-awards/


	A FIDAI FILM and UNDR SCREENING September 28th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, Minneapolis
Screening of A Fidai Film and UNDR at TCAFF, presented by Mizna.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://mspfilm.org/show/a-fidai-film/
	
A FIDAI FILM SCREENING September 28th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Toronto Palestine Film FestivalLightbox 350 King St W, Toronto, Cinema 2
Screening of A Fidai Film and UNDR at TCAFF, presented by Mizna.
 ︎︎︎https://www.tpff.ca/program-guide-2024/2024/8/5/template-76wml

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	A FIDAI FILM SCREENINGSeptember 26th - October 2nd 2024, Seoul (Korea)︎︎︎ DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Goyang A Fidai Film will be screened at the 16th DMZ Docs. &#38;nbsp;︎︎︎https://tickets.sff.ba/films/2728
	A FIDAI FILM &#38;amp; UNDR SCREENINGSeptember 24th - 29th 2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, BIEFFA Fidai Film and UNDR will be screened at BIEFF.
 &#38;nbsp;What distinguishes Kamal Aljafari in the field of montage filmmaking is his unique way of intervening on the materials he is working with. Here the filmmaker uses color blocking (subversively appropriating a technique typically used by censors) and colorization to reject the official narratives of the Occupation and to transform them into a gesture of resistance against suppression and the erasure of Palestinian history and culture. Drawing both on the poetry of revolutionary writer Ghassan Kanafani and on a Palestinian film archive from Beirut that was looted and destroyed in 1982, the film spans over several decades, from the years of the British Mandate of Palestine, through the Nakba and the multiple post-1948 wars, up to present day. A Fidai Film is an act of radical re-appropriation by one of today’s leading experimental filmmakers – and a film that is all the more urgent now, in the context of the genocide in Gaza. (Flavia Dima)
︎︎︎︎︎︎https://bieff.ro/en/film/a-fidai-film/


	A FIDAI FILM SCREENING September 19th - 23rd&#38;nbsp;2024︎︎︎︎︎︎Palestine Cinema Days, Ramallah
Screening of A Fidai Film at Palestine Cinema Days.
 ︎︎︎︎︎︎https://mspfilm.org/show/a-fidai-film/
	KAMAL ALJAFARI RETROSPECTIVESeptember 12th – 15th 2024︎︎︎ EDOC, Encuentros de otro cine, EcuadorLa imagen como desafío: retrospective of Kamal Aljafari’s films at the EDOC, Encuentros de otro cine, Ecuador. ︎︎︎https://festivaledoc.org/la-imagen-como-desafio-el-cine-de-kamal-aljafari/


	A FIDAI FILM AWARDSeptember 12th – 15th 2024︎︎︎ CIFF, Camden Inetrnational Film FestivalA Fidai Film got the Cinematic Vision Award at CIFF.︎︎︎https://deadline.com/2024/09/2024-camden-international-film-festival-awards-1236090968/

	A FIDAI FILM SCREENINGSeptember 12th – 15th 2024︎︎︎ CIFF, Camden Inetrnational Film Festival
Screening of A Fidai Film in the main competition.
 ︎︎︎https://pointsnorthinstitute.org/ciff/


	A FIDAI FILM SCREENINGSeptember 11th – 15th 2024︎︎︎ Villa Medici Film Festival, Rome
Screening of A Fidai Film at Villa Medici Film Festival.
 ︎︎︎https://www.villamedici.it/en/festival-di-film-di-villa-medici-edizione-2024/
	A FIDAI FILM and PARADISO, XXXI, 108 at LUSSASAugust 22nd 2024︎︎︎ États généraux du film documentaire, LussasA Fidai Film and Paradiso, XXXI, 108 will be screened as part of the programme "Films in a state of war".︎︎︎hhttps://openagenda.com/agendas/35777956/embeds/864718/events/78733589?lang=fr


	A FIDAI FILM SCREENINGAugust 19th 2024 , 12:30, Cineplexx Sarajevo 4︎︎︎ Sarajevo Film FestivalA Fidai Film will be screened as part of in this year's Sarajevo Film Festival Partner Presents program (Doha Film Institute).
︎︎︎https://tickets.sff.ba/films/2728
	TWO FILMS BY KAMAL ALJAFARI: AN UNUSUAL SUMMER + A FIDAI FILM August 10th – 11th 2024︎︎︎ Wolf Kino, Berlin
We are happy to welcome back director Kamal Aljafari in person to introduce An Unusual Summer, and a repeat screening of A Fidai Film, before we plan to host a complete retrospective of his work in the coming months.
 ︎︎︎https://wolfberlin.org/en/programme/events/kamal-aljafari-zu-gast-an-unusual-summer-a-fidai-film


	INTERNATIONAL FEATURE DOX AWARD for A FIDAI FILMAugust 10th 2024︎︎︎ DokuFest, KosovoA Fidai Film got the International Feature Award at DokuFest.︎︎︎https://dokufest.com/en/festival/2024/international-feature-dox/a-fidai-film


A FIDAI FILM and UNDR SCREENINGSAugust 2nd – 10th 2024︎︎︎ Dokufest, Kosovo
Screening of UNDR and A Fidai Film.
 ︎︎︎https://dokufest.com/en/festival/2024/international-feature-dox/a-fidai-film︎︎︎https://dokufest.com/en/festival/2024/no-other-land-films-on-palestine/undr


	BEST EXiS AWARD for UNDR
July 25th 2024︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;(EXiS) Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul
UNDR got the Best EXiS Award at EXiS in Seoul.
︎︎︎https://ex-is.org/information/2024/7/25/exis2024-ex-now-
	AN UNUSUAL ARCHIVE – KAMAL ALJAFARIJune 2nd 2024︎︎︎ Unarchive – Found Footage Fest, RomeScreening of UNDR, Paradiso, XXXI, 108, An Unusual Summer.︎︎︎https://unarchivefest.it/eventi/blocco-kamal-aljafari/


	KAMAL ALJAFARI NAMED AS FELLOW AT INSITITUTE FOR IDEAS AND IMAGINATION 2024 - 2025︎︎︎ Columbia University, Reid Hall, Paris
The Institute for Ideas and Imagination is a residential fellowship program housed at Columbia’s Reid Hall in Paris, offering support for faculty and recent doctoral students from all departments and schools to work alongside writers and artists from around the world. It was launched as a presidential initiative just six years ago and now forms part of Columbia Global, which brings together global initiatives at the university, including Columbia World Projects, the Columbia Global Centers, and the Committee on Global Thought.
 ︎︎︎https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/news/announcing-our-2024-25-class-of-fellows/
	KAMAL ALJAFARI JURY May 23rd 2024 – June 2nd 2024︎︎︎ IndieLisboa, Lisboa
Jury at International Feature Film Competition.
 ︎︎︎https://indielisboa.com/en/festival/jury-and-awards/


	RETROSPECTIVE KAMAL ALJAFARI May 23rd 2024 – June 2nd 2024︎︎︎ IndieLisboa, Lisboa
Honouring the cinematographic work of Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari
 ︎︎︎https://indielisboa.com/en/section/retrospective-kamal-aljafari/
	
	 KAMAL ALJAFARI SCREENINGS May 21st 2024, 18:45/21:00︎︎︎ Forum des images, Paris
Screening of “A Fidai Film”, “Paradiso, XXXI, 108”, “The Roof”, “Balconies” at the presence of the filmmaker, followed by a discussion with the critic and researcher Occitane Lacurie.
 ︎︎︎https://www.forumdesimages.fr/les-programmes/soirees-100pc-doc-2023-2024/a-fidai-film-prec.-de-paradiso-suivi-dun-debat-avec-le-cineaste-et-occitane-lacurie

︎︎︎https://www.forumdesimages.fr/les-programmes/soirees-100pc-doc-2023-2024/the-roof-prec.-de-balconies-suivi-dun-debat-avec-le-cineaste-et-occitane-lacurie

	
	 A FIDAI FILM SCREENINGS May 16th 2024, 19︎︎︎ Wolf Kino, Berlin
Screening of “A Fidai Film” in Berlin.
 

︎︎︎https://wolfberlin.org/en/programme/events/a-fidai-film-q-a-with-kamal-aljafari
	“A FIDAI FILM” FILM SCREENING May 10rd - 23rd  2024︎︎︎ Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Poignant found footage film on the looting of archives during the civil war in Lebanon, in 1982. What can we see, feel and perhaps comprehend from archival materials? It is a dialogue that can only begin with putting a mirror in front of archives.
 ︎︎︎https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/a-fidai-film/1249444?fbclid=IwAR1ykiKhB9QLX6XF_XiRgd7TL2hfRrTeriQJK8Epx2XDyA3peBcV93GvEEA_aem_AZsI37Wt8BZE6ePN3Gkjcs_ZHvCgcxq1PK2wjlZ_VTDSIi7CTS-RzqMAZkN8HDBL9SE


KAMAL ALJAFARI FILM SCREENINGS May 7th- 8th 2024, 19:00/20:30, Galleria Toledo, Napoli
︎︎︎ Napoli MONiTOR
Screenings of “The Roof”, “Port of Memory”, “Recollection”, “An Unusual Summer”, as part of the cycle A FUOCO! Decifrare un conflitto, organized by Napoli MOLiTOR.︎︎︎https://napolimonitor.it/a-fuoco-decifrare-un-conflitto-tutte-le-proiezioni-della-rassegna/
	“A FIDAI FILM” FILM SCREENING April 15th 2024, 18:15, Capitole Leone, Nyon
︎︎︎ Visions du Réel, Nyon
In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time, it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, 'A Fidai Film' aims to create a counter-narrative to this loss, presenting a form of cinematic sabotage that seeks to reclaim and restore the looted memories of Palestinian history. It’s a poignant exploration of identity, memory, and resistance, told through a unique blend of documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques. 

	
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” SCREENINGApril 13th 2024︎︎︎ Images Festival, TorontoFilmmakers make the light. There is always poetry in images and images in poetry: imagination, desire, steadfastness, and liberation are entangled into material manifestations of scenes, vignettes, soundscapes, lightscapes, stillness, and rhythm. The films and videos in dreamworlds are thought of as material possibilities in which worlds appear that are made up of dreams; worlds dreamt in daylight, in rumination; worlds that follow an intuition through movement, dance, and protest. Dreaming is the condition whereby forms emerge as relation, as our love for the land, and as liberation: in unexpected cuts, speeds, scratches, interruptions, fragments, blurs, a green ray. There’s an intimacy here that corresponds to the image’s vibrancy, dynamism, and beat. Images are light.︎︎︎https://imagesfestival.com/events/dreamworlds
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENING May 5th 2023, 19:30, Microcine Adalberto Nogués
︎︎︎ FICIC 12 . Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Cosquín, Argentina
«El título remite a un breve y enigmático texto tardío de Borges incluido en El hacedor en el que se especula sobre la pérdida de una verdad cuya restitución haría que todo fuera distinto; el título también evoca un pasaje de La divina comedia. La relación que se establece entre ambas referencias literarias con el pretérito material de propaganda del ejército israelí, el cual puede ser testimonio o ficción, mantiene una opacidad semántica programática e incómoda, debido a la selección en sí de cada plano, un sistema de montaje inteligente en el que se trabaja la oposición entre acción y descanso y una banda musical diversa y de procedencias significativas que desconoce y contradice el eventual sentido de las imágenes volviéndolas susceptibles de inscribirlas en la parodia, el ridículo o la impugnación. Lo que se desmantela en los 19 minutos es cualquier fervor patriótico presupuesto en los materiales, cuyo nuevo ordenamiento posibilita visibilizar algo así como el inconsciente de las imágenes. Roger Koza». ︎︎︎https://cosquinfilmfest.com/programacion/ficic-12-programacion-2023/competencia-internacional-cortometrajes/paradiso-xxxi-108/?fbclid=IwAR06DeIj9gdpIwusGaYVo-9JgprUx9hASAPzwjj2_gDzVkKTFSwXWfePGXs

	
“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENING April 30th 2023, 16:00, Centre Culturelle Universitaire de Gabès
︎︎︎Gabes Cinema Fen, Tunisia
«On n’entend plus rien, le rugissement de notre avion absorbe tout autre son. Nous nous dirigeons dans le plus gigantesque feu d’artifice insonorisé du monde, et sous peu nous lâcherons nos bombes». ︎︎︎https://gabescinemafen.com/cinema/CourtMetrage/202
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” AND “PORT OF MEMORY” SCREENINGApril 29th 2023, 15:00, Sinema TranstopiaApril 30th 2023, 17:00, Arsenal
︎︎︎AlFilm, Berlin“Paradiso, XXXI, 108 befasst sich mit dem Vergleich zwischen der filmischen Darstellung von bewaffneten Angebern als heroisch und aufregend und der tatsächlichen verheerenden Realität. Der Film zeigt gesammelte Aufnahmen des israelischen Militärs bei Manövern in der Wüste, die eine Zweideutigkeit zwischen dem, was real ist, und dem, was gezeigt wird, kreieren. Aljafari unterstreicht die Idee, dass Gewalt immer dupliziert wird, eine Darstellung ihrer selbst ist.”“In Port of Memory zeigt Aljafari ein subtiles Porträt der Stadt Jaffa. Der Film fängt in kraftvoller Sprache die Rituale der Stadt, die alltägliche Präsenz ihrer Bewohner:innen sowie ihren Kampf gegen die drohende Vertreibung und das Gespenst des Verschwindens ein. Dabei hält Port of Memory nostalgisch an den Überresten einer verlorenen Vergangenheit fest, um sich gegen die Enteignung der palästinensischen Einwohner:innen und die Prozesse von Gentrifizierung und Neoliberalisierung zu wehren.”
︎︎︎https://alfilm.berlin/program/paradiso-xxxi-108/
︎︎︎https://alfilm.berlin/program/port-of-memory/

	
“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENING April 14th to 23rd 2023
︎︎︎Las Palmas Film Festival
“A través de toda una red de citas intertextuales, desde Borges hasta Alighieri, Kamal Aljafari crea un contrapunto conceptual a una serie de imágenes bélicas, extraídas de materiales de propaganda militar israelí de los años 60 y 70”. ︎︎︎https://www.lpafilmfestival.com/paradiso-xxxi-108/
	
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” SCREENINGMarch 22nd, 20:30
︎︎︎Aflam Film Festival, Marseille“A partir d’images détournées tirées d’un matériel de propagande militaire israélien des années 1960-1970, le film montre des hommes qui jouent à la guerre. Se référant par son titre à Borges et Dante qui discutaient l’impossibilité de connaître l’image de Dieu, Al Jafari dénonce en contrepoint la violence d’une armée qui se double d’une représentation d’elle-même.”
︎︎︎https://www.aflam.fr/mercredi-22-mars-i-20h30-i-paradiso-i-mucem-i-xxxi-108-foragers/


	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENING March 4th 2023
︎︎︎IFFA Independent Film Festival Athens, KINO Athens
“Culled from Israeli military propaganda materials from the ‘60s and ‘70s, Paradiso, XXI, 108 regards (with irony) towards a “cinematic self-portrait of men playing war”, to quote its author. Kamal Aljafari works here with a network of intertextual quotations––Sebald, Borges, Alighieri––to create a conceptual counterpoint to the images on the screen”. ︎︎︎https://www.kinoathens.org/paradiso
	“A FIDAI FILM” FUNDING
︎︎︎Medienboard Berlin Brandeburg, Experimentalfilm
A Fidai Film is supported by the Experimentalfilm Program of Medienboard, in Berlin.
︎︎︎https://www.medienboard.de/en/foerderung-film/


    “PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM EXHIBITION March 3rd to 5th 2023
︎︎︎18th Berwick Film &#38;amp; Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK)“As chilling as it is absurd, Kamal Aljafari’s Paradiso repurposes found footage from Israeli military propaganda and turns it into a fictional drama of men playing at war. Aljafari takes the title from a short story by Borges and describes the work as a “cinematic self-portrait”––questioning our interpretation of screen violence, its relationship to real-world horrors, and troubling our positionality as spectators.”
︎︎︎https://bfmaf.org/programme/paradiso-xxxi-108/


	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” PRIZE
February 20th 2023
︎︎︎Preis der deutschen Filmkritik, Bester Experimentalfilm
“Paradiso, XXXI, 108” wins the prize for Best Experimental Film, given by the German Critics’ Association.“Ohne Kommentar bilden die Ausschnitte aus israelischen Militär- Propagandafilmen ein farbenfrohes Kaleidoskop, das der Filmemacher mit elegischer, melodischer Musik zu einem präzise choreografierten Ballett komponiert. Durch die vorsichtig ausgewählten Einstellungen––das Bild oft herangezogen oder angeschnitten––rückt die ursprüngliche Intention des Materials in den Hintergrund, es erhält stattdessen eine neue Bedeutung. Kamal Aljafari hat seinem Experimentalfilm nicht nur den klangvollen, halb poetischen, halb wissenschaftlich klingenden Titel „Paradiso XXI, 108“ gegeben, zu dem ihn eine Kurzgeschichte von Borges inspiriert hat, er verfremdet die Bilder auch durch eine pastellige Einfärbung. Von ihrer verstörenden Wirkung haben sie damit dennoch nichts eingebüßt.“
︎︎︎https://www.vdfk.de/kategorie/preis-der-deutschen-filmkritik


	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENING January 31st 2023
︎︎︎Clermont ISFF, Lab Competition
︎︎︎https://clermont-filmfest.org/en/
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENINGJanuary 26th to 04th February 2023︎︎︎IFFR Rotterdam︎︎︎https://iffr.com/en

	
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENINGOctober 22nd 2022︎︎︎Viennale, Vienna
Aljafari’s new film takes its title from a brief story by Borges, one that considers our collective inability to know God by sight. To play against this concept, Aljafari presents footage of the Israeli military conducting maneuvers in the desert. The material itself is uncanny, since it is never entirely apparent whether we are watching documentary scenes, a staged training film, or decontextualized excerpts from a fictional feature. This aspect, heightened by Aljafari’s precise editing rhythms, suggests that violence is always doubled, a representation of itself. Aljafari peers into the collective unconscious of “the most moral army in the world.”︎︎︎Michael SicinskiThis film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 2: CRISES IN PARADISE.
︎︎︎https://www.viennale.at/de/film/paradiso-xxxi-108
	“A FIDAI FILM” AT ATELIER 105 RESIDENCYDecember 2022︎︎︎Light Cone – Distribution, Exhibition and Conservation of Experimental Film, ParisThe participation of A Fidai Film has been announced as one of the selected projects for the second session of 2022 of the Atelier 105 Lauréats residency program.
︎︎︎https://lightcone.org/en/news-768-laureats-de-la-deuxieme-session-2022

	
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENINGNovember 26th 2022︎︎︎FilmMakerFest Milan

Screening of Paradiso, XXXI, 108&#38;nbsp;in occasion of Milan FilmMakerFest.
︎︎︎https://www.filmmakerfest.com/FilmFestival/2344?fbclid=IwAR2Q7S0uyqxu87cA61Pvxc5fqtuJ-XeDsLGsoF6cS0SWJKS4oipn5Cm4iQs
	“THE ROOF” FILM SCREENINGNovember 16th 2022︎︎︎LEFFEST’22 - Lisbon &#38;amp; Sintra Film FestivalThe filmmaker shares everyday life with his parents and sisters in Ramle where he was born and where his father’s family comes from. We learn the daily history together with the history of the Palestinians from Jaffa from the grandmothers’ memories about 1948. The film’s beginning and its end are framed by dialogues with another Palestinian friend with an Israeli passport - a young lady working in Jerusalem who wants to become a judge.
︎︎︎https://www.leffest.com/en/films/the-roof

	
	FUTURESPECTIVES︎︎︎75 Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland Palestinian artist, film director, and producer Kamal Aljafari talks about his film "An Unusual Summer" created with footage from his father's surveillance camera, which, by trying to solve a mystery, captured the fascinating life of the community.
︎︎︎https://www.locarnofestival.ch/LFF/media/futurespectives-locarno-film-festival-podcast.html
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENINGSeptember 27th to October 02nd 2022︎︎︎BIEFF – Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
Culled from Israeli military propaganda materials from the ‘60s and ‘70s, Paradiso, XXXI, 108 regards (with irony) towards a “cinematic self-portrait of men playing war”, to quote its author. Kamal Aljafari works here with a network of intertextual quotations – Sebald, Borges, Alighieri, themselves also “found” by the author – to create a conceptual counterpoint to the (fictional – what we see are exercises) images on the screen: “was then Your image like the image I see now?” (Dante). Like in Unusual Summer (2020), the filmmaker uses extradiegetic sound as a means of fictionalization (Silent Night, Handel’s Sarabande), proving his position as one of the most important found footage filmmakers of the moment. ︎︎︎Flavia Dima
︎︎︎https://bieff.ro/en/film/paradiso-xxxi-108-2/

	
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENINGSeptember 30th to October 09th 2022
︎︎︎Black Canvas – Festival De Cine Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 has been selected for the Beyond the Canvas Competition during the 6th edition of Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, taking place in Mexico City.
︎︎︎https://blackcanvasfcc.com/EN/film/65
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENING
September 16th 2022︎︎︎CIFF – Camden International Film Festival, Points North Institute (USA)
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 will be screened, also with live Q&#38;amp;A, during Camden International Film Festival, taking place at the Points North Institute.
︎︎︎https://pointsnorthinstitute.org/films/paradiso-xxxi-108

	
	“A FIDAI FILM” AT FINAL CUTSeptember 03rd to 04th 2022
︎︎︎79th Biennale Cinema, Venice
A Fidai Film has been selected for Final Cut that will be taking place at the 79th Venice Film Festival.
︎︎︎www.labiennale.org/en/news/final-cut-venice-8-work-progress-films-have-been-selec
	24 HOURS TALKAugust 2022︎︎︎75 Locarno Film Festival, SwitzerlandA 24h long continuous conversation about possible futures of attention at the Locarno Film Festival. 3 hosts and 24 invited experts speculate about emerging forms of attention for the duration of a day. In collaboration with Locarno Film Festival’s Basecamp and USI-Università della Svizzera italiana, post-doc at USI Locarno Film Festival Chair.︎︎︎https://www.locarnofestival.ch/LFF/locarno75/locarno-extra/A-24h-long-talk-on-the-Future-of-Attention

	
	“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” WORLD PREMIEREAugust 9th to 11th 2022︎︎︎75 Locarno Film Festival, SwitzerlandThe short film Paradiso, XXXI, 108 will be premiered at Pardi di Domani: Concorso Corti d’Autore and is eligible as “Locarno Short Film Candidate” for the European Film Awards.You may find all the screening dates and details at the link below.︎︎︎www.locarnofestival.ch/LFF/locarno75/program-75/ParadisoXXXI108


	JURY AT PRINCÌPÎ AWARDJuly 22nd to 30th 2022
︎︎︎Lago Film Fest, Revine Lago
Kamal Aljafari has been selected to be part of the jury for the Princìpî Award during the festival, alongside with Joana De Sousa and Kiro Russo.
+ TALK “Filming the Absent/Present” in dialogue with Alessandro del Re at BAREFOOT INDUSTRY DAYS 

 ︎︎︎www.lagofest.org/portfolio_page/giuria-principi-award-lff2022/


	RETROSPECTIVE “INDI-VISUAL 4–7” AND JURYJuly 14th to 21st 2022
︎︎︎EXiS Experimental Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
Retrospective as part of the Indi-Visual 4–7 and jury during EXiS festival and screening of An Unusual Summer, It’s A Long Way From Amphioxus, Recollection, Port of Memory and The Roof.

︎︎︎https://ex-is.org/indivisual


	WORKSHOP “THE NIGHT WORKSHOP”
May 30th to June 17th 2022
︎︎︎HEAD Cinéma GenèveGrand Atelier in Berlin with the students of the Film Department.Final screening at Wolf Kino. June 17th at 2pm.
 ︎︎︎https://headcinema.ch/


	WORKSHOP “FROM THE INTERIOR”March 28th to 30th 2022 ︎︎︎CineLab-IFILNOVA, Lisbon
Workshop From the Interior at “Mediating the Real. Philosophy and Documentary film” at New University of Lisbon.
︎︎︎https://ifilnova.pt/


	QUMRA PLATFORM 2022March 18th to 23rd 2022︎︎︎Qumra Projects, Doha Film Institute
A Space for New Voices in Cinema, Qumra Projects. Project in Post-production, A Fidai Film.

︎︎︎https://www.dohafilminstitute.com/films/a-fidai-film

	
	25 ENCOUNTERSMarch 4th 2022︎︎︎IFFR Rotterdam Film Festival
Anniversary programme 25 Encounters presents 25 films selected by 25 pairs of cinephiles and filmmakers invited to discuss cinema, film festivals and art in its broadest form.Stray Dogs by Tsai Ming-liang – Available in the BeneluxSelected by Rutger Wolfson and Kamal Aljafari.
︎︎︎https://iffr.com/en/blog/25-encounters

	FILM SCREENING “RECOLLECTION”March 2nd 2022︎︎︎Rialécticas Film Festival, Guayaquil, Ecuador
 This festival will open with a program of two sessions dedicated to ruined territories, articulated by the emanation of memories and ghosts through a radical use of the archive, presenting the film Recollection by Kamal Aljafari. 

︎︎︎https://rialecticas.weebly.com

	
	WORKSHOP “WAYS OF SEEING”February 21th to 25th  2022︎︎︎HEAD Genève – Haute école d’art et designThe workshop Ways of seeing is organized in collaboration with HEAD Cinéma Genève, and will be happening during “Semaine de tous les possibles”.
︎︎︎https://headcinema.ch/


	MASTERCLASSNovember 27th  2021, at 11:00 am︎︎︎Spoutnik Cinema, Genève
This masterclass is organized in collaboration with HEAD Cinéma Genève and will be hosted in English by the Swiss director and director of HEAD Cinéma, Nicolas Wadimoff.

︎︎︎https://headcinema.ch/
︎︎︎https://palestine-fce.ch/films-evenements/masterclass-avec-kamal-aljafari/


	FILM SCREENING “AN UNUSUAL SUMMER” 
October 28th 2021︎︎︎DOC, Buenos AiresMovie screening of An Unusual summer during DOC Buenos Aires movie festival.


︎︎︎https://docbsas.com.ar/films/an-unusual-summer/

	FOCUS ON KAMAL ALJAFARIOctober 06th to 14th 2021︎︎︎Olhar de Cinema, BrazilThis year’s Focus Section shines the spotlight on the work of Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari, whose latest feature film, An Unusual Summer (2020, 80′), makes its Brazilian debut at the 10th Olhar de Cinema after being shown at several renowned film festivals around the world.

︎︎︎www.olhardecinema.com.br/mostra-foco-kamal-aljafari/︎︎︎www.youtube.com/olhardecinema

	
	ARTICLE “LAR ALÉM DO MAR”October 15th 2021︎︎︎Ensaio CriticoArticle on Kamal Aljafari work, written in occasion of the 10th Olhar de Cinema, whose Focus Section highlighted his work.

︎︎︎www.ensaiocritico.com/post/kamal-aljafari-revisitando


	ARTICLE “ELEGER A DISTÂNCIA PERFEITA”October 13th 2021︎︎︎Revista CinéticaArticle on Kamal Aljafari’s An Unusual Summer, written in occasion of the 10th Olhar de Cinema.

︎︎︎http://revistacinetica.com.br/nova/juliana-um-verao-incomum-2021/


	FILM SCREENING “AN UNUSUAL SUMMER”September 30th 2021︎︎︎Dom Radio, St. PetersburgRussian premiere of “An Unusual Summer”, opening the new season of the film laboratory at Dom Radio, St. Petersburg.

︎︎︎https://musicaeterna.org/visit/event/unusual-summer-kamal-aljafari/
	ONLINE TALK AND FILM SCREENINGSeptember 14th 2021︎︎︎Massachusetts College of Art and DesignThe department of Film and Video at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design welcomes Kamal Aljafari to the MassArt Ciné Culture Screening series with a online screening of selected works, followed by a discussion and Q&#38;amp;A with Kamal Aljafari live on Zoom.

︎︎︎https://filmvideo.massart.edu/︎︎︎https://blogs.massart.edu/macc/
 
︎︎︎www.eventbrite.com/e/massart-cine-culture-kamal-aljafari-tickets-170334800975

	
ONLINE FILM SCREENING “PORT OF MEMORY”September 1st to 30th 2021︎︎︎e-flux Video &#38;amp; FilmJoin e-flux Video &#38;amp; Film for an online screening of Kamal Aljafari's Port of Memory (2010), streaming from Wednesday, September 1 through Thursday, September 30, 2021. The film is presented as part of the monthly series Staff picks.
︎︎︎www.e-flux.com/video/415040/port-of-memory/
︎︎︎www.e-flux.com/video/

	EXHIBITION “HOW TO FIND MEANING IN DEAD TIME”August 27th to September 12th 2021︎︎︎SAVVY Contemporary, BerlinThe film An Unusual Summer is included in the exhibition How to find meaning in dead time reflects on some of the key issues surrounding the archive – its agency, inert and active modes of resistance, as well as its transformative potential in expanding personal and collective histories beyond the dominant conventions of constraint and erasure.
︎︎︎https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/projects/2021/how-to-find-meaning-in-dead-time/

	
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WITH HASAN IN GAZAمع حسن في غزة
	
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	YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2025RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 106’COUNTRIES&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Palestine; Germany; France;&#38;nbsp;QatarLANGUAGE&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Arabic, TECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color
	Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. What started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989, led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. 

A cinematic reflection on memory, loss and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again.

	
&#38;nbsp;AWARDS &#38;amp; MENTIONS
︎︎︎Europa Cinemas Label 
Locarno Film Festival
︎︎︎Grand Prize Frontier Competition
DMZ Docs
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FESTIVALS
Locarno Film Festival

États généraux du film documentaire


Sarajevo Film FestivalToronto Film Festival
EDOC – International Documentary Film Festival
DMZ DocsCamden Film Festival 
 

Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFFNew York Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Festival War on Screen

Refocus Film Festival
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine
 

Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux

BFI London Film Festival
Film Fest Ghent
A FIDAI FILMالفلم عمل فدائي
	
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	YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2024RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 78’COUNTRIES&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Palestine; Germany; Qatar, Brasil; FranceLANGUAGE&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Arabic, English, HebrewTECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color, Black and White
	In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time, it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, 'A Fidai Film' aims to create a counter-narrative to this loss, presenting a form of cinematic sabotage that seeks to reclaim and restore the looted memories of Palestinian history. It’s a poignant exploration of identity, memory, and resistance, told through a unique blend of documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques.
	

&#38;nbsp;AWARDS &#38;amp; MENTIONS
︎︎︎Cinematic Vision Award 
Camden International Film Festival
︎︎︎Jury Prize in the Burning Lights Competition
Visions du Réel

︎︎︎GNCR/CINÉ+ Distribution Support Prize / Renaud Victor Prize
FID Marseille︎︎︎Premio del Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani (SNCCI) / Menzione d’onore Giuria Giovani
Pesaro Film Festival︎︎︎International Feature Award
DokuFest ︎︎︎Mirage Sound Design Award
MIRAGE Film Festival
︎︎︎Best International Film
Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine︎︎︎Young Jury Special Mention
Archivio Aperto︎︎︎ Jury Special Mention
Transmutación Cine Contemporaneo

︎︎︎ Best Film
Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote︎︎︎ Tanit d’Or
Carthage Film festival 
︎︎︎ Grand Prize 
Festival en Ville !
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FESTIVALS
Visions du RéelIndieLisboaPesaro Film FestivalFID MarseilleKino OtokEncounters South African International Documentary FestivalFestival ObskuraGolden Apricot Yerevan IFFDokuFestSarajevo Film Festival
États généraux du film documentaireCamden International Film FestivalEDOC Encuentros del Otro Cine Film Festival in Ecuador
Villa Medici Film Festival
Palestine Cinema Days 

BIEFF Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival

Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
Toronto Palestine Film Festival

Pravo Ljudski Film Festival

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
Festival International du Film Indépendant de BordeauxBFI London Film Festival

MIRAGE Film Festival

Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de CineFICValdiviaViennale - Vienna International Film Festival
SEMINCI - Valladolid International Film Week


Refocus Film Festival
Transmutación Cine ContemporaneoArchivio Aperto
Ji.hlava IDFFMuestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá - MIDBOJanela Internacional de Cinema do Recife


Verzió Film Festival

Indie Memphis

Sharjah Film Platform 7 (SFP7)
Écrans du réel

Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali

IDFA International Documentary Film Festival
 Amsterdam
London Palestine Film Festival
Festival du film franco-arabe

Palestine Filmer C’est Exister

FIDOCS &#124; El Cine de lo Real 
RIDM - Montreal International Documentary FestivalFestivalforumdoc.bh - Festival do Filme Documentário e Etnográfico de Belo Horizonte
Mar del Plata Internationa Film Festival

Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote
 

Marrakech International Film 
FestivalHuman Rights Film Festival (HRFF) Zagreb

Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival

14th Which Human Rights? Film Festival
Media City Film Festival
Carthage Film festivalÉcrans du réelFestival en ville!
Sanat Dünyamız Film Days
 

DocPoint HelsinkiAntenna Documentary Film Festival

Ismailia International Film Festival 
La Inesperada – Festival de cine
InScience Film Festival
Luxembourg City Film Festival

Sofia International Film Festival
Courtisane festival
Chicago Palestine Film Festival
International Film Festival of Uruguay
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg
Alchemy Film &#38;amp; ArtUnArchive Found Footage Fest

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival


UNDR
	
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	YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2024RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 15’COUNTRIES&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;PalestineTECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color,&#38;nbsp;Black and White
	Helicopter footage examines the desert, surveying ancient natural formations and human interventions. Dynamite changes the face of the land. Farmers work their fields. Children play hide-and-seek. Employing archival footage, UNDR constructs an eerie narrative of calculated incursion. We cannot help but recall that Palestine remains a land subjected to aerial surveillance that seeks to appropriate the landscape.

︎︎︎Nicholas Davies, IFFR
	
AWARDS
︎︎︎Best EXiS Award
(EXiS) Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul︎︎︎Special Mention
BIEFF Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival︎︎︎Best International Short Film
Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine


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IFFR - International Film Festival RotterdamBerwick Film &#38;amp; Media Arts FestivalUUnarchive Found Footage FestPrismatic Ground(EXiS) Experimental Film and Video Festival in SeoulKarlovy Vary IFF
DokufestEDOC Encuentros del Otro Cine Film Festival in Ecuador
Palestine Cinema Days

Peripheries of Film &#38;amp; Video Fest Festival
BIEFF Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival

Twin Cities Arab Film FestivalBFI London Film Festival&#38;nbsp; 


Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine
Viennale -&#38;nbsp;Vienna International Film Festival
Transmutación Cine Contemporaneo
Uppsala Short Film Festival

ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
Kassel Dokfest


Ajyal Film Fest - Doha Film Institute

Human Rights Film Festival (HRFF)
InLaguna Film Festival


14th Which Human Rights? Film Festival


	PARADISO, XXXI, 108
	
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	YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2022RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 18’COUNTRIES&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Palestine; GermanyLANGUAGE &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;HebrewTECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color
	“Nothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the world’s biggest display of soundproof fireworks, and soon we will drop our bombs”.
	AWARDS
︎︎︎Bester Experimentalfilm

Preis der deutschen Filmkritik

FESTIVALSLocarno Film Festival

Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival
IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
Camden International Film Festival
Black Canvas – Festival De Cine Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival


FilmmakerFest Milan
Berwick Film &#38;amp; Media Arts Festival

IFFA Independent Film Festival of Athens

Filmfest Dresden

Curtas Vila do Conde
Ajyal Film Fest - Doha Film Institute
Palestine Cinema Days
Laceno d'Oro - Naples
Las Palmas Short Film Festival

ALFILM Festival Berlin
Gabes Cinema FenAflam - Marseille

Festival Internacional de cine independiente de Cosquin
International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires (FICDH)
Haifa Independent Film Festival

Toronto Palestine Film Festival


Guanajuato International Film Festival
Exis Experimental film Festival

Bucharest Short Film Festival

Lima Alterna IFF

Encounters Film Festival
Toronto Arab Fest
HIVE Film Days


Locarno Shorts Weeks


Tramway Film Festival - Cine Sin Fin

Pravo Ljudski Film Festival


	AN UNUSUAL SUMMERصيف غير عادي

	
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YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2020
RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 80’
COUNTRIES&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Palestine; Germany
LANGUAGE&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Arabic; English
TECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color, Black and White


    Following an act of vandalism, the filmmaker’s father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of the house. Everyday family life, the neighbours going to work, and the children at school, An Unusual Summer captures fleeting moments of poetry whereas, in the background, the daily choreography of the Arab district—that no one some name the “ghetto”—of Ramla, in current Israeli territory, comes to the surface. Composing with this visual material of low-definition aesthetics, finely punctuated with sound effects, Kamal Aljafari creates a mechanical diary of a life that scrolls past the window and succeeds with patience and infinite grace in transfiguring a ‘film à dispositif’&#38;nbsp; based on a security device into a personal and eminently political fresco. “In the distant past, many years ago, in front of this house, there stood a fig tree in a garden, which has now vanished, bulldozed into memory, and swept up by History and Time.&#38;nbsp;

︎︎︎Emilie Bujès, Visions du Réel, 2020

	
AWARDS
︎︎︎Best filmMuestra de cine de Lanzarote Spain 2020︎︎︎Best film beyond the canvas
Black Canvas Film Festival Mexico 2020︎︎︎Jury prize
Filmmaker Festival Milan Italy 2020︎︎︎More With Less Award Images Festival Toronto 2021FESTIVALS
Visions du RéelInternational Film Festival RotterdamViennale - Vienna International Film FestivalSeville European Film FestivalFilmmaker festival MilanLanzarote Muestra Internacional de CineMostra de Cinema Arab i Mediterrani de CatalunyaEtats Généraux du film documentaire LussasBlack Canvas Film Festival MexicoBerlin Critics’ WeekImages Festival TorontoOlhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Curitiba BrasilDoc Buenos Aires Argentina


	IT’S A LONG WAY FROM AMPHIOXUSجميعنا اتينا من هناك
	
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	YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2019RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 16’COUNTRIES &#38;nbsp; GermanyLANGUAGE&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Arabic; EnglishTECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color

	An old woman leans to the young man with the yellow book sitting next to her and asks, “What are they distributing here?” “Numbers”, he replies. In Berlin’s waiting rooms, where metal and wooden seats are nailed to the ground, people arrive after emerging from the seas. Here they wait.Kamal Aljafari’s new short film once again collapses time, questioning the meaning of life in a system in which humanity is reduced to a number and the value of one’s future is measured by applications within grey hallways. Step into this black hole, where bones and flesh have become numbers in a queuing system. 
This surreal film observes the origins of our being versus the future of how we are defined. What have we become from our point of origin until today’s chaos of bureaucratic mazes? It’s a long way from Amphioxus, we all came from there.

︎︎︎Forum Expanded, Berlinale, 2019
	
    
FESTIVALS


Berlinale 2019, Berlin
London Short Film Festival 2025


	RECOLLECTIONاستعادة
	
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YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2015RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 70’COUNTRIES &#38;nbsp; Palestine; Germany; LebanonLANGUAGE&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Arabic; EnglishTECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color, Black and White


	The Israeli and American features shot in the town of Jaffa from the 60s to the 90s are the basis for the history of a dream. All protagonists are removed from the original footage, leaving an empty setting formed by the town. Thus, the impossible is made possible from the “I” perspective, namely filming the past and compiling a picture album made of memories.︎︎︎Locarno Film Festival, 2015

	
FESTIVALS
Locarno Film FestivalDOC Buenos Aires, Argentina &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Torino Film Festival, ItalyInstitute Lumiere Lyon, FranceÉtats généraux du film documentaire LussasBerwick Film &#38;amp; Media Arts Festival3rd Bienal de la Imagen en Movimento, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaKunstverein München, Germany


	PORT OF MEMORYميناء الذاكرة

	
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	YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2009RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 62’COUNTRIES &#38;nbsp; Palestine; Germany; FranceLANGUAGE&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Arabic; HebrewTECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color, 35mm

	Walled-up houses, notice of expulsion, immobile consumers in a café, an eccentric individual driving round on his scooter shouting, a sick old woman and her daughter glued to a television set, stray cats, the anxiety of a couple tetanised by the sombre certainties of the future, and to finish, a cemetery overlooking the sea and night drawing in on the terraces. The picture that Kamal Aljafari paints for us of Jaffa the Palestinian is that of a shrinking skin slowly closing in on its resigned inhabitants, who are crushed by fate, whatever they say about it, as if the slow-motion repetition of everyday gestures were their only way of suspending the course of time, of delaying the inevitable.&#38;nbsp;
︎︎︎Javier Packer y Comyn, Cinéma du Réel 2010
	
    
AWARDS︎︎︎Louis Marcorelles Award
Center Pompidou, Cinéma du Réel ParisFESTIVALS
Cinema du réel, ParisTorino Film Festival, ItalyInternational Film Festival RotterdamSan Fransisco Film Festival Filmmaker’s Society, VancouverMigrating Forms, Anthology Film Archives, NYCDOC Buenos AiresSan Sebastian International Film FestivalMapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema, 1960s-Now, MoMA New York 


	BALCONIES
الشرفات


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	YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2007RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 7’COUNTRIES &#38;nbsp; Palestine; LebanonTECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color
	
    An experimental meditation focusing on the deteriorated and unfinished balconies of the home town of Kamal Aljafari, Ramla, and inspired by Romance sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca: "But now I am no longer me, and my house is no longer my House…"

︎︎︎HOMEWORKS IV &#124; Sfeir-Semler – Art Gallery, 2008
	
    
Produced with the support of Ashkal Alwan,The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts.


	THE ROOFالسطح
	
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	YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2006RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 61’COUNTRIES &#38;nbsp; Palestine; GermanyLANGUAGE&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Arabic; Hebrew; EnglishTECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color
	This deceptively quiet film presents a portrait of Aljafari’s family in Ramleh and Jaffa that hovers between documentary and cinematic memoir, guided by a nimble camera moving calmly but ceaselessly around the rooms of homes inhabited, damaged and ruined. The title refers to the roof missing from the house where Aljafari’s family resettled in 1948, a home unfinished, an incomplete construction project. The use of stillness and off-screen space creates a sense of suspension, of time spent waiting, of aftermath, of lives lived elsewhere. Aljafari’s striking use of his “cast,” his family, reveals the influence of Bresson’s use of nonprofessional actors as models whose performances emanate from their presence, not from acting.

︎︎︎Harvard Film Archive
	
    
AWARDS︎︎︎Best SoundtrackFID Marseille, France︎︎︎Best International FilmImages Festival, Toronto︎︎︎Special MentionFilmer à tout prix, Brussels, Belgium︎︎︎Special Mention
Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, France


FESTIVALFIDMarseille — Marseille International Film FestivalPacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CaliforniaThe Images Festival of Film &#38;amp; Video TorontoBreda Photography FestivalStedelijk Museum, Bureau Amsterdam, HollandCinemaEast Film Festival, New YorkArab Film Festival, San FranciscoMusée Jeu de Paume, Paris,Visions du Réel Festival, Nyon, SwitzerlandRotterdam International Film FestivalL’Alternativa de BarcelonaCopenhagen International Documentary Film FestivalCinémathèque de NiceFilmer à tout prix, BrusselsCinéma Méditerranéen MontpellierDOC Buenos AiresLe P’tit Ciné, Brussels


VISIT IRAQزورو العراق
	
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	YEAR &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2003RUNTIME&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 26’COUNTRIES &#38;nbsp; Germany; SwitzerlandLANGUAGE&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Arabic; French; EnglishTECHS&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Color
	Visit Iraq is a short about the abandoned Iraqi Airways office in Geneve, it was made during Kamal Aljafari studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
	
    
AWARDS
︎︎︎Best german short filmMinistry of Culture, Germany︎︎︎Jury Prize
Artimage Biennial Graz, Austria


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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:50:30 +0000</pubDate>

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	Visit ︎︎︎Kamal Aljafari Productions


	BEIRUT 1931
	
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	GENRE&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;FictionIN PRODUCTION&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;


	K. arrives in his native Jaffa after the disappearance of M. Like a lurking shadow, M. would only occasionally visit his family home— mostly over weekends—and would sometimes disappear for long periods of time. The visits he pays to hospitals and ministries in search for him prove futile, albeit for the fact that they drive him into a sort of labyrinth inside the Tel Aviv of today. But this is just one illustration of the extent to which the lines between the real and the fictitious are totally blurred. When K. finds a trace of M. in the background of an Israeli fiction film as he accidentally roams the street behind the shooting locale, the haziness between fiction and reality is accentuated further.
	FUNDERS
Filmförderung der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM)
Doha Film InstituteArab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)


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		<title>Retrospectiva Kamal Aljafari: Por un cine y una Palestina libre</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:08:27 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Kamal Aljafari</dc:creator>

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	Retrospectiva Kamal Aljafari: Por un cine y una Palestina libre


	Por Libertad Gills
Con la colaboración de Luz Arana


LA IMAGEN COMO DESAFÍO: EL CINE DE KAMAL ALJAFARIEDOC: Encuentros del Otro Cine Film Festival, Ecuador


September 13th 23rd&#38;nbsp;2024

	La libertad de un pueblo es equivalente a la libertad de su cine. Palestina y su cine han vivido
bajo ocupación israelí. Durante la intervención militar en Líbano en 1982, el archivo del
Palestine Research Center en Beirut fue confiscado por las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel. En su
nuevo film Fidai Film (2024), Alajfari reclama estas imágenes y las redirecciona hacia una
historia de liberación. Si alguna vez te has preguntado ¿cómo liberar el cine?, el cine de Kamal
Aljafari ofrece varias pistas...

Primero comienza con la liberación de la imagen del sonido, un gesto mucho más que una
decisión estética. Al liberar la imagen del sonido, Aljafari ahora tiene espacio para jugar, y es
justamente a través de la experimentación cinematográfica que encuentra una posibilidad de
libertad, que extiende más allá de las imágenes y de los sonidos, que infiltra el encuadre y se sale
de las orillas de la pantalla, una liberación que comienza en su calle, en su ciudad portuaria de
Jaffa, y se extiende hacia todo el pueblo palestino.

Es un caso de liberación a través del cine, que sucede simultáneamente a una lucha política en las
calles. Después de todo, hay diversas maneras de luchar... Porque mientras caen los misiles
lanzados por Israel (cuyo armamento es en gran parte fabricado y provisto por Estados Unidos)
guiados con inteligencia artificial proporcionada por el proyecto Nimbus, desarrollado
conjuntamente por las empresas estadounidenses Google y Amazon, se borra la vida de más de
40.000 palestinos asesinados, casi la mitad de los cuales son bebés y niños en 10 meses de
bombardeos. Y una cifra similar o mayor continúan desaparecidos bajo los escombros, mientras
otros agonizan en las ruinas de los hospitales sin medicamentos, al cuidado de médicos que
pueden ser asesinados en cualquier momento pues el bombardeo de hospitales -y escuelas- ha
sido utilizado por Israel a pesar de constituir un crimen de guerra según la Convención de
Ginebra. Incluso ni los muertos logran finalmente descansar en paz, sino que algunos cadáveres
fueron entregados hace unos días por militares israelíes a la Autoridad Palestina en Gaza, días o
semanas o meses después del fallecimiento, tan descompuestos que ya no es posible su
identificación. La crueldad de la ocupación que continúa hasta después de la muerte...

Y así con los archivos. Secuestrados, ocupados, tomados, recuperados por cineastas como
Aljafari que se ponen a trabajar con películas deshechas; con imágenes torturadas y sonidos
quebrados. El trabajo es uno de reconstruir, pero no es una reconstrucción del archivo a su estado
original, no podría serlo. Como los cuerpos que vuelven ya sin vida a sus familiares (si es que
vuelven), o los presos palestinos que logran salir en libertad después de sufrir torturas en las
cárceles israelíes, los archivos ya no son lo que eran. A través de la intervención fílmica, el color,
el sonido, el reencuadre, el montaje, el archivo original se transforma en algo nuevo, que nos permite ver algo que quizás en el original estaba más oculto, invisibilizado, algo que Aljafar quiere que veamos. Este es el trabajo.

Un cine libre... ¿pero es libre el espectador?

La retrospectiva programada para los EDOC este año contiene cuatro cortos y tres largos
realizados entre 2007 y 2024. En su totalidad, cuentan la historia de una comunidad y de su
invisibilidad cinematográfica, una historia atravesada por la experiencia y los recuerdos de lo que
Aljafari ha perdido, con el tiempo, de lo que le han quitado y de su deseo de recordar, de
recuperar, de sanar, de entender, de volver a ver y sentir aquello que ya no está.

En 2022 mostramos Recollection (2015), como parte del programa de Rialécticas en Guayaquil.
El público jamás había visto una película palestina. Y, sin embargo, los espectadores se
reconocieron en las imágenes, en las calles soleadas, en los rostros expectantes, como también se
reconocieron en el descarte, en la invisibilidad. El cine de Aljafari tira una cuerda hacia todo
espectador en situación de opresión para mostrar un camino posible a través de la liberación y la
experimentación. Comienza con la liberación de la imagen del sonido; la separación de estos dos
para que puedan cobrar mayor fuerza en el montaje. Un cine libre para un pueblo en camino
hacia su libertad. 

	
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		<title>Archive</title>
				
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ARCHIVE
Index of archived interviews, film reviews published among international newspapers, 
magazines, national TV Channels between 2010 to 2024.


	Audio
Interview
	Living Archives, Memories and Ghosts

	Kamal Aljafari, Gil Hochberg,


Columbia Global Paris Podcast
	10-04-2025
	
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	Audio
Interview
	Anthology 6 - PAST IMPERFECT

	Pamela Cohn,
Lucid Dreaming
	14-02-2025
	
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	Interview
	Kamal Aljafar. Volver la imagen contra sí misma

	Iván Pinto Veas, Celine Reymond,
laFuga
	21-01-2025
	
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	Interview
	“The Process of Dehumanization that Happened to the Palestinians”: Kamal Aljafari on A Fidai Film
	Flavia Dima,
Filmmaker Magazine
	17-12-2024
	
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	Interview
	Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film
	Roberto Oggiano,
Cineuropa
	28-11-2024
	
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	Interview
	‘The role of the artist is to show the bottom of the ocean’
	Mariann Enge,Kunstkritikk
	07-11-2024
	
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	Review
	Ji.hlava 2024: A Fidai Film (dir. Kamal Aljafari) &#124; Review
	Prachi Bari,
Film Fest Report
	07-11-2024
	
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	Review
	A Fidai Film
	May Makki,
Screening Slate
	09-11-2024
	
&#60;img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e87bf49afcc544e5b718498b027a53d1e6d4998896d02c03095bf5c90b365716/Fidai-Film---resized.jpeg" data-mid="208027779" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e87bf49afcc544e5b718498b027a53d1e6d4998896d02c03095bf5c90b365716/Fidai-Film---resized.jpeg" /&#62;


	Review
	Archivio Aperto 17: A Fidai Film
	Luca Mannella,
Film Idee
	05-11-2024
	
&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a237a942a93e124f180f26cf912020a174779ae08a8d32e19370e67af795ba60/Fidai-Still-5.jpg" data-mid="214948565" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a237a942a93e124f180f26cf912020a174779ae08a8d32e19370e67af795ba60/Fidai-Still-5.jpg" /&#62;


	Interview
	Cinematic Confrontations and Imperial Archives: Pablo Alvarez responds to Kamal Aljafari’s Paradiso, XXXI, 108

	Pablo Alvarez,
Screening Rights
	17-10-2024
	
&#60;img width="2400" height="1440" width_o="2400" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ba0819330946a3d198f1cbb860a0f91c9f46697ac4f3903bb932a6738935b51/PARADISO--XXXI--108-2022.jpg" data-mid="219548362" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ba0819330946a3d198f1cbb860a0f91c9f46697ac4f3903bb932a6738935b51/PARADISO--XXXI--108-2022.jpg" /&#62;


	Interview
	On Archival
Sabotage:
An Interview
with Kamal
Aljafari

	Saeed Taji Farouky,
Mizna 24.2

	25-09-2024
	
&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40e7055e8b530d812bd197b1f4782158c366c149c260c21adf85f9f31ca60d00/Fidai20Still202-1.jpg" data-mid="215789198" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40e7055e8b530d812bd197b1f4782158c366c149c260c21adf85f9f31ca60d00/Fidai20Still202-1.jpg" /&#62;


	Review
	The Land of Sad Oranges: Kamal Aljafari and A Fidai Film
	Mike Hoolboom,
Panorama

	25-09-2024
	
&#60;img width="666" height="513" width_o="666" height_o="513" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8e9908d3afc6a6b8c4dcf0d1a2e938a7c9d60181abcdbb2ee5429d4cbf1b600/school.jpg" data-mid="218660015" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/666/i/e8e9908d3afc6a6b8c4dcf0d1a2e938a7c9d60181abcdbb2ee5429d4cbf1b600/school.jpg" /&#62;


	Review
	A Fidai Film
	
Hors champ

	23-08-2024
	
&#60;img width="3024" height="1964" width_o="3024" height_o="1964" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/445cc917b07643f7c96bb95b0fb5404334fdba0e0e33294ef9ae4ae1f5010dee/Fidai-Still-8.png" data-mid="216946500" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/445cc917b07643f7c96bb95b0fb5404334fdba0e0e33294ef9ae4ae1f5010dee/Fidai-Still-8.png" /&#62;


	Interview
	Una cinepresa per gli espropriati
	Tommaso Isabella,
FilmTV

	20-08-2024
	
&#60;img width="3024" height="1964" width_o="3024" height_o="1964" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51d36a448dee430308bfa7865195597dfe884be9b6b21a65f653726fe71b96c3/Fidai-Still-9.png" data-mid="216946501" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51d36a448dee430308bfa7865195597dfe884be9b6b21a65f653726fe71b96c3/Fidai-Still-9.png" /&#62;


	Review
	A Fidai Film
	Carmen Gray,
Film Verdict

	19-08-2024
	
&#60;img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ccab48b34c6859f2d27d503189ee25bf9949e27411259b1ce6aca2d2712e4d8/Fidai-Still-7.png" data-mid="216946499" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ccab48b34c6859f2d27d503189ee25bf9949e27411259b1ce6aca2d2712e4d8/Fidai-Still-7.png" /&#62;


	Review
	A Fidai Film – cinema as an act of resistance
	Paulo Portugal,
Fipresci

	03-08-2024
	
&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40e7055e8b530d812bd197b1f4782158c366c149c260c21adf85f9f31ca60d00/Fidai20Still202-1.jpg" data-mid="215789198" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40e7055e8b530d812bd197b1f4782158c366c149c260c21adf85f9f31ca60d00/Fidai20Still202-1.jpg" /&#62;


	Review
	Sabotaggio
	
	
	Edipo Massi,
Film Parlato

	14-07-2024
	&#60;img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e87bf49afcc544e5b718498b027a53d1e6d4998896d02c03095bf5c90b365716/Fidai-Film---resized.jpeg" data-mid="208027779" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e87bf49afcc544e5b718498b027a53d1e6d4998896d02c03095bf5c90b365716/Fidai-Film---resized.jpeg" /&#62;
    

	Film review
	A Fidai Film	
	Marco Romagna,
cinelapsus
	27-06-2024
	&#60;img width="2618" height="1946" width_o="2618" height_o="1946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f0811e9bdb4f0305ae5c18e64fe8c00670691be154a41aec0a37764c109925d/A-Fidai-film_CineLapsus.jpg" data-mid="217454696" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f0811e9bdb4f0305ae5c18e64fe8c00670691be154a41aec0a37764c109925d/A-Fidai-film_CineLapsus.jpg" /&#62;


	Film review
	Kamal Aliafari: “Il mio film è un’azione sabotatrice” 	
	Luca Bove,
Taxidrivers
	20-06-2024
	&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40e7055e8b530d812bd197b1f4782158c366c149c260c21adf85f9f31ca60d00/Fidai20Still202-1.jpg" data-mid="215789198" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40e7055e8b530d812bd197b1f4782158c366c149c260c21adf85f9f31ca60d00/Fidai20Still202-1.jpg" /&#62;


	Film review
	A Fidai Film	
	Leonardo Strano,
Pointblack
	18-06-2024
	&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a237a942a93e124f180f26cf912020a174779ae08a8d32e19370e67af795ba60/Fidai-Still-5.jpg" data-mid="214948565" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a237a942a93e124f180f26cf912020a174779ae08a8d32e19370e67af795ba60/Fidai-Still-5.jpg" /&#62;


	Film review
	A Fidai Film (2024), de Kamal Aljafari


	Joaquín De Loredo,
CALIGARI Revista de cine
	18-06-2024
	&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/782cf74ab2e9df2742c32ce6006a4163e66f5a65ee5ccfba22d666a83d369635/Fidai-Still-1.jpg" data-mid="214944720" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/782cf74ab2e9df2742c32ce6006a4163e66f5a65ee5ccfba22d666a83d369635/Fidai-Still-1.jpg" /&#62;


	Film review
	‘A Fidai Film’ di Kamal Aljafari, a Pesaro le memorie di Palestina che resistono
	Antonio Maiorino,
Taxi Drivers
	18-06-2024
	&#60;img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e87bf49afcc544e5b718498b027a53d1e6d4998896d02c03095bf5c90b365716/Fidai-Film---resized.jpeg" data-mid="208027779" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e87bf49afcc544e5b718498b027a53d1e6d4998896d02c03095bf5c90b365716/Fidai-Film---resized.jpeg" /&#62;


	Film review
	I materiali d’archivio si trasformano in resistenza militante in quest’opera sulla storia della Palestina
	
	Tommaso Tocci,
My Movies
	18-06-2024
	&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71abf1f4a13f0a41b4c4580adbc1bee85b12f8478028e482c266bdf0cbfa37d7/coverlg.jpg" data-mid="214943822" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71abf1f4a13f0a41b4c4580adbc1bee85b12f8478028e482c266bdf0cbfa37d7/coverlg.jpg" /&#62;


	Interview
	Kamal Aljafari: “Il cinema palestinese lotta per esistere, come il nostro popolo”
	
	
	Cristiana Paternò,
Cinecittà News
	16-06-2024
	&#60;img width="1119" height="746" width_o="1119" height_o="746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e7017b11dd9bc2ebe86165448d72aa06eb962aa0624fb32ed2bb236fc389346/Kamal_Aljafari2.jpg" data-mid="214943951" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e7017b11dd9bc2ebe86165448d72aa06eb962aa0624fb32ed2bb236fc389346/Kamal_Aljafari2.jpg" /&#62;
    

	Review
	‘UNDR’: l’ultima opera di Kamal Aljafari all’UNARCHIVE Found Footage Fest&#38;nbsp;
	Francesco Dinoi,
Taxi Drivers

	02-06-2024
	&#60;img width="1944" height="1438" width_o="1944" height_o="1438" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecffc885e1bbbd7b0c223ac56cbc621fae01b9312264a75419e335004d2f16cc/UNDR-stills1.png" data-mid="217563765" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecffc885e1bbbd7b0c223ac56cbc621fae01b9312264a75419e335004d2f16cc/UNDR-stills1.png" /&#62;


	Interview
	Kamal Aljafari, la camera dei diseredati e il cinema in Palestina
	
	
	Gianluca Diana,
Il manifesto

	25-05-2024
	&#60;img width="1200" height="802" width_o="1200" height_o="802" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d474e5959fa9ff244d48815ab6b871632b7f62526cae1c0c577e872fc862bebc/KAljafari_photocreditGiampieroAssumma.jpeg" data-mid="217153510" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d474e5959fa9ff244d48815ab6b871632b7f62526cae1c0c577e872fc862bebc/KAljafari_photocreditGiampieroAssumma.jpeg" /&#62;


	Interview
	Montar um filme fidai
	
	Pedro Azevedo,
colo
	28-05-2024
	&#60;img width="1440" height="961" width_o="1440" height_o="961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0c7251441c54b9184d94c0d1df28bb5dcbadc57599bc914384e5309e9efc0da/fbsp207339_35bsp_231003_lf_198-1440x961.jpg" data-mid="219548533" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0c7251441c54b9184d94c0d1df28bb5dcbadc57599bc914384e5309e9efc0da/fbsp207339_35bsp_231003_lf_198-1440x961.jpg" /&#62;


	Interview
	Padroni dei nostri archivi
	
	Fabio Ferzetti,
L’Espresso
	24-05-2024
	&#60;img width="1937" height="1436" width_o="1937" height_o="1436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aeaed727a8e1c67a0d9106a3b3904f03201a889f6588d8f4dd863de734adb54c/UNDR-stills2.png" data-mid="217153511" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aeaed727a8e1c67a0d9106a3b3904f03201a889f6588d8f4dd863de734adb54c/UNDR-stills2.png" /&#62;


	Interview
	Kamal Aljafari: Esta é a “câmara dos desapossados!”
	
	Paulo Portugal,
Esquerda
	18-05-2024
	&#60;img width="632" height="355" width_o="632" height_o="355" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f44dfef9801ff817ae0240299e28c5f02e2b41e135799d64514c724cf892c057/Kamal_AlJafari.jpg" data-mid="214944643" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/632/i/f44dfef9801ff817ae0240299e28c5f02e2b41e135799d64514c724cf892c057/Kamal_AlJafari.jpg" /&#62;


	Film review
	“The end of history never arrived.” Some highlights from Visions du Réel 2024
	
	Flavia Dima,
Films in Frame
	27-04-2024
	&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/782cf74ab2e9df2742c32ce6006a4163e66f5a65ee5ccfba22d666a83d369635/Fidai-Still-1.jpg" data-mid="214944720" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/782cf74ab2e9df2742c32ce6006a4163e66f5a65ee5ccfba22d666a83d369635/Fidai-Still-1.jpg" /&#62;


	Film review
	A Fidai Film
	
	Giuseppe di Salvatore,
Filmexplorer
	22-04-2024
	&#60;img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e87bf49afcc544e5b718498b027a53d1e6d4998896d02c03095bf5c90b365716/Fidai-Film---resized.jpeg" data-mid="208027779" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e87bf49afcc544e5b718498b027a53d1e6d4998896d02c03095bf5c90b365716/Fidai-Film---resized.jpeg" /&#62;


	Film review
	How Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari staged a cinematic rebellion
	Hamid Dabashi,
Middle East Eye
	06-10-2023
	&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40e7055e8b530d812bd197b1f4782158c366c149c260c21adf85f9f31ca60d00/Fidai20Still202-1.jpg" data-mid="215789198" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40e7055e8b530d812bd197b1f4782158c366c149c260c21adf85f9f31ca60d00/Fidai20Still202-1.jpg" /&#62;


	Film review
	Life Must Be Disrupted In Order To Be Revealed: The Recording As Record And The Hyper-Surveilled Entity Not Meant To Exist In An Unusual Summer
	Lamia Abukhadra,
Mizna
	
	29-03-2023
	&#60;img width="768" height="538" width_o="768" height_o="538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fec5f0f07c8ba18f8681bed2e851c8e03c21d22eec5df7b6f0d5b18d9645a068/Unusual_Summer_Still_-103257.jpeg" data-mid="208024479" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/fec5f0f07c8ba18f8681bed2e851c8e03c21d22eec5df7b6f0d5b18d9645a068/Unusual_Summer_Still_-103257.jpeg" /&#62;


	Interview
	Lunch with Paradiso, XXXI, 108
	Clermont Film Fest
	26-01-2023
	
&#60;img width="1566" height="1142" width_o="1566" height_o="1142" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1abd1d5ea1cbe2336b34d901171a2606aae715b15d507f8c6d247f8b5c79c013/Schermata-2023-03-19-alle-22.54.25.png" data-mid="172301835" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1abd1d5ea1cbe2336b34d901171a2606aae715b15d507f8c6d247f8b5c79c013/Schermata-2023-03-19-alle-22.54.25.png" /&#62;


	Film review
	Paradiso, XXXI, 108, di Kamal Aljafari: il gioco della guerra a FilmMakerFest
	Edoardo Pelligra, 
Duels Magazine
	26-11-2022
	
&#60;img width="1568" height="1146" width_o="1568" height_o="1146" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be01edd6710fa2a42a15895aca69277142af54caf6306860b74e53f65a4f82da/Schermata-2023-03-19-alle-22.54.13.png" data-mid="172301834" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be01edd6710fa2a42a15895aca69277142af54caf6306860b74e53f65a4f82da/Schermata-2023-03-19-alle-22.54.13.png" /&#62;


	Film review
	Sovvertendo la propaganda israeliana con l’occhio filmico di Kamal Aljafari
	Giuseppe Gariazzo, 
Il Manifesto
	26-11-2022
	
&#60;img width="1766" height="1290" width_o="1766" height_o="1290" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cfd1f057d7b85126212da36611af3ded9378ce61fb884b9ee9026e5a06ef204/Schermata-2023-03-19-alle-20.22.07.png" data-mid="172301762" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cfd1f057d7b85126212da36611af3ded9378ce61fb884b9ee9026e5a06ef204/Schermata-2023-03-19-alle-20.22.07.png" /&#62;


	Interview

	كمال الجعفري: كاميرا المسلوبين في جديده الفيلم عمل فدائي
	Ayham Al-Sahli,
Institute for Palestine Studies

	29-08-2022
	
&#60;img width="768" height="578" width_o="768" height_o="578" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/414b129d43d793c74050c55894715a410c0105ed5aed1f9af54969e5302f1bad/2022.08.29_interview_palestinestudies_03.png" data-mid="152000095" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/414b129d43d793c74050c55894715a410c0105ed5aed1f9af54969e5302f1bad/2022.08.29_interview_palestinestudies_03.png" /&#62;


	Audio
	The Film Comment Podcast: The Future of Attention with Kamal Aljafari
	Kamal Aljafari,The Film Comment


	18-08-2022
	
&#60;img width="2574" height="1870" width_o="2574" height_o="1870" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f14d4376f17511131eb1d08d5cafe235d8908fa615b84bd8536618505670345/Schermata-2022-09-03-alle-16.03.50.png" data-mid="151998633" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f14d4376f17511131eb1d08d5cafe235d8908fa615b84bd8536618505670345/Schermata-2022-09-03-alle-16.03.50.png" /&#62;


	Audio

	Futurespectives: the Locarno Film Festival Podcast


	Gabby Sanderson,Locarno Film Festival

	
08-2022
	
&#60;img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63431787619ada0086a3aef250f68e3666b17fcd52330d840ef9508484af0cf0/1BC06B9FD2C27DF8656A55D3E1ACCAF6.jpeg" data-mid="172302548" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/63431787619ada0086a3aef250f68e3666b17fcd52330d840ef9508484af0cf0/1BC06B9FD2C27DF8656A55D3E1ACCAF6.jpeg" /&#62;


	Audio
	صيف غير عادي:&#38;nbsp; فلم وثائقي.. بالصدفة
	Misha Khalil,MCD Radio France
	16-06-2021
	&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4738118daea883ca49c18337eecf15ee4ed9940f2ed5b295f740ba43268024f0/2021.06.16_interview_audio_01.jpg" data-mid="135865336" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4738118daea883ca49c18337eecf15ee4ed9940f2ed5b295f740ba43268024f0/2021.06.16_interview_audio_01.jpg" /&#62;

	Interview

	FOCO: Entrevista Com Kamal Aljafari. “Kamal Aljafari: Varandas inacabadas no mar.”  

	Natalie Handal,Olhar de Cinema
	06-2021
	&#60;img width="1458" height="909" width_o="1458" height_o="909" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cbfe71e590e722a49988e00df678a98591ffe81d3c503a563e6afd2e0c785bd8/2021.06_interviews_01.png" data-mid="135865300" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cbfe71e590e722a49988e00df678a98591ffe81d3c503a563e6afd2e0c785bd8/2021.06_interviews_01.png" /&#62;


	Review
	“An Unusual Summer” Director Kamal Aljafari on Discovering the Lost Ghosts of Palestine

	Ed Meza,Variety
	31-05-2021
	&#60;img width="2040" height="1425" width_o="2040" height_o="1425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43ef0a27f86d29c13eb9febde19079c4e35d50aa65dfb832c9100d8d8c43ea7d/2021.05.31_review_edmeza_02.png" data-mid="136547557" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43ef0a27f86d29c13eb9febde19079c4e35d50aa65dfb832c9100d8d8c43ea7d/2021.05.31_review_edmeza_02.png" /&#62;

	Review
	Si esiste solo se si è visti: An Unusual Summer, Kamal Aljafari 
	Giuseppe Gariazzo,Film Parlato
	27-03-2021
	&#60;img width="1982" height="1417" width_o="1982" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98516a1a006003237edb33b7c0f68739799b4d7c5ec022652168eb258ead0e78/2021.03.27_review_gariazzo_02.png" data-mid="136547567" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98516a1a006003237edb33b7c0f68739799b4d7c5ec022652168eb258ead0e78/2021.03.27_review_gariazzo_02.png" /&#62;

	Audio
	Aflam Marseille Radio Interview
	Aflam Marseille –– Film Festival
	03-2021
	&#60;img width="1982" height="1431" width_o="1982" height_o="1431" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56c8c8f362abb1967b00fc741ca41f31f38463d102178acde1f588344ae91da6/2021.03_interview_audio_02.png" data-mid="135865335" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56c8c8f362abb1967b00fc741ca41f31f38463d102178acde1f588344ae91da6/2021.03_interview_audio_02.png" /&#62;

	Interview
	Kamal Aljafari –– Palestine, a vanished land
	Andrea Inzerillo,
	Il Manifesto
	29-05-2021
	&#60;img width="1170" height="658" width_o="1170" height_o="658" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a8032e17b490049da1b306a69ba299870343d5878b26aa6761eea1ddb312e35/2021.05.29_text_01.jpeg" data-mid="135865299" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a8032e17b490049da1b306a69ba299870343d5878b26aa6761eea1ddb312e35/2021.05.29_text_01.jpeg" /&#62;

	
Review

	I Thought I Was Seeing Palestinians: On Kamal Aljafari

	Kaleem Hawa,Cinema Scope
	06-01-2021
	&#60;img width="618" height="450" width_o="618" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef01dd3da15134e9bc20781e0e6fefcbd59118ff8d6c5aed912427ece077e099/2021.01.06_An-Unusual-Summer_02.jpg" data-mid="135865294" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/618/i/ef01dd3da15134e9bc20781e0e6fefcbd59118ff8d6c5aed912427ece077e099/2021.01.06_An-Unusual-Summer_02.jpg" /&#62;


Review

	Documentary Review: An Unusual Summer


	Raaktim Nandi,AMP –– Asian Movie Pulse


	12-11-2020

	&#60;img width="1250" height="561" width_o="1250" height_o="561" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c9081d6a29047c1f49ab4ba9767ad80d3dee55ef31da045eb8baec5b57fddb2/2020.11.12_An-Unusual-Summer_01.jpeg" data-mid="135865292" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c9081d6a29047c1f49ab4ba9767ad80d3dee55ef31da045eb8baec5b57fddb2/2020.11.12_An-Unusual-Summer_01.jpeg" /&#62;

	Review
	Invisible terrains: Jaffa’s obscured history
	
	Nadi Abusaada,
The Architectural Review
	12-11-2020
	&#60;img width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf23e344d4a39beb3a675771504292732e244015753a2a97798b3b8d16f106be/2020.10.14_An-Unusual-Summer_07.jpeg" data-mid="135865291" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/cf23e344d4a39beb3a675771504292732e244015753a2a97798b3b8d16f106be/2020.10.14_An-Unusual-Summer_07.jpeg" /&#62;


	Film review
	El día que Schrader lloró (AN UNUSUAL SUMMER)
	Valerio Benustelli,
Tequila Technicolor
	
	06-10-2020
	
&#60;img width="1024" height="576" width_o="1024" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13613ee0ee4c739d989c4c31c07c48f838c8f3b0fb390bb6bab4ced64a5c170a/bl_unusual-summer_01-1024x576-1.jpeg" data-mid="208027462" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13613ee0ee4c739d989c4c31c07c48f838c8f3b0fb390bb6bab4ced64a5c170a/bl_unusual-summer_01-1024x576-1.jpeg" /&#62;


	Review
	Ode to the father


	Maria Mercedes Revuelta,

	Caligari Magazine
	10-2020
	&#60;img width="611" height="450" width_o="611" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b032797b7520740df634bbe61e17461641f09e2c2cc0bc5d474998d583056eb2/2020.10_An-Unusual-Summer_02.jpeg" data-mid="135865284" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/611/i/b032797b7520740df634bbe61e17461641f09e2c2cc0bc5d474998d583056eb2/2020.10_An-Unusual-Summer_02.jpeg" /&#62;

	Interview
	Interview with Kamal Aljafari about his film “An Unusual Summer”


	Christophe Postic,

Le Blog De Tënk
	25-08-2020
	&#60;img width="1365" height="678" width_o="1365" height_o="678" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5046e92b4e248301130934f7972ef5f6b2bb8396158d3eb94f4ef5c8127cfed/2020.08.25_interviews_01.jpeg" data-mid="135865301" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5046e92b4e248301130934f7972ef5f6b2bb8396158d3eb94f4ef5c8127cfed/2020.08.25_interviews_01.jpeg" /&#62;


	Audio
	كمال الجعفري: صيف غير عادي هو أكثر فيلم أحبّه من بين أفلامي
	Alia Qudeih,
MCD Radio France
	15-05-2020
	&#60;img width="1926" height="1336" width_o="1926" height_o="1336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c33f4243c4ff62e76b357c0a697f563007adde519936504f074266dfcaab0fb/2020.05.15_interview_MCD-Radio-France_01.png" data-mid="136809153" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c33f4243c4ff62e76b357c0a697f563007adde519936504f074266dfcaab0fb/2020.05.15_interview_MCD-Radio-France_01.png" /&#62;


	Review
	An Unusual Summer (2020)


	Pamela Bienzobas,
Ubiquarian Magazine
	12-05-2020
	&#60;img width="1053" height="731" width_o="1053" height_o="731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac8623006aaf2d4395fa2c1159bc9db77228926dcfcbe8668777813d1e4b9f57/2020.05.12_An-Unusual-Summer_01.jpeg" data-mid="135865282" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac8623006aaf2d4395fa2c1159bc9db77228926dcfcbe8668777813d1e4b9f57/2020.05.12_An-Unusual-Summer_01.jpeg" /&#62;

	Interview
	كمال الجعفري: الفساد السياسيّ أوصلنا إلى الفساد السينمائيّ في فلسطين
	

Saleh Dabbah,
Fusha Magazine
	30-04-2020
	&#60;img width="780" height="439" width_o="780" height_o="439" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/272fab1eecc5ee2078ae42dcd2b8d1bec8bec21e1e0277ff9cab823ff418b72f/2020.04.30_interview_fusha_04.jpeg" data-mid="136555891" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/780/i/272fab1eecc5ee2078ae42dcd2b8d1bec8bec21e1e0277ff9cab823ff418b72f/2020.04.30_interview_fusha_04.jpeg" /&#62;

	Review
	Unusual Summer di Kamal Aljafari: a Visions du Réel una finestra sul cortile della Palestina


	Massimo Causo,
 	Duel Magazine
	27-04-2020
	&#60;img width="599" height="450" width_o="599" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/367dd5f80ba8bef2c4b3417a10b162e73f57c7796055e4744e72585279982b5f/2020.04.27_An-Unusual-Summer_05.jpeg" data-mid="135865281" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/599/i/367dd5f80ba8bef2c4b3417a10b162e73f57c7796055e4744e72585279982b5f/2020.04.27_An-Unusual-Summer_05.jpeg" /&#62;

	Review
	An Unusual Summer


	Giuseppe di Salvatore, 
Jean Perret, 
Laura Davis,
 Film Explorer Magazine
	26-04-2020
	&#60;img width="616" height="450" width_o="616" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a371093d7a5b75f9731c9d3024cd9e2f7c1c1ab44ba8234600ca003a5e11d8e/2020.04.26_An-Unusual-Summer_01.jpeg" data-mid="135865276" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/616/i/1a371093d7a5b75f9731c9d3024cd9e2f7c1c1ab44ba8234600ca003a5e11d8e/2020.04.26_An-Unusual-Summer_01.jpeg" /&#62;

	Video
	The Legendary Elia Suleiman Masterclass


	Elia Suleiman, Kamal Aljafari,
	Palestine Film Meetings


	05-03-2020
	&#60;img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e280fac69b111eee36dc2f9696c37f3db329cfc188bba0502e5b5c83783200f/2020.03.05_masterclass_eliasuleiman_01.png" data-mid="135865334" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e280fac69b111eee36dc2f9696c37f3db329cfc188bba0502e5b5c83783200f/2020.03.05_masterclass_eliasuleiman_01.png" /&#62;

	Interview
	The Director Who Won't Take Money From Israel but Wants Israelis to See His Films


	Yasmin Zaher,
 Haaretz
	27-02-2019
	&#60;img width="1188" height="672" width_o="1188" height_o="672" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf5cfa9b70835f8b6cbf3be69edabf0955c198b10f646288d2a6d9f6f18e37eb/2019.02.27_text_02.png" data-mid="135865297" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf5cfa9b70835f8b6cbf3be69edabf0955c198b10f646288d2a6d9f6f18e37eb/2019.02.27_text_02.png" /&#62;


	Interview
	Cinematographic Brief: Recollection by Kamal Aljafari
	Anaïs Farine,
The Funambulist
	17-12-2018
	&#60;img width="2000" height="1502" width_o="2000" height_o="1502" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99f78253fb70232ba25fed95c4bb389c1dbf054b38cfe9f4e9ab620508d34381/Schermata-2022-07-18-alle-16.48.17.png" data-mid="148127376" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99f78253fb70232ba25fed95c4bb389c1dbf054b38cfe9f4e9ab620508d34381/Schermata-2022-07-18-alle-16.48.17.png" /&#62;


	Interview
	فيلم "استعادة" للفلسطيني كمال الجعفري.. محاولة لاكتشاف الجذور الفلسطينية لمدينة يافا
	Liana Saleh,
France 24
	01-06-2018
	&#60;img width="2560" height="1439" width_o="2560" height_o="1439" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac7d4dcaca1d9e5fcc7f91cfb93a632ab28dea122e5d75ce00489164fa22823b/2018.06.01_interview_france24_01.png" data-mid="136809365" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac7d4dcaca1d9e5fcc7f91cfb93a632ab28dea122e5d75ce00489164fa22823b/2018.06.01_interview_france24_01.png" /&#62;

	Video
	Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari: 'I always felt like an immigrant in my own country'


	Stuart Norval,
France 24
	29-05-2018
	&#60;img width="2560" height="1438" width_o="2560" height_o="1438" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0fa444463493cbb80ac3e9246a4f7c746aa9f082b01776be7b4f4f56128f893/2018.05.29_video_france24_02.png" data-mid="135865333" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0fa444463493cbb80ac3e9246a4f7c746aa9f082b01776be7b4f4f56128f893/2018.05.29_video_france24_02.png" /&#62;

	Review
	Recollections, Notes on a film by Kamal Aljafari


	Adania Shibli,Ibraaz Magazine
	08-04-2017
	&#60;img width="880" height="660" width_o="880" height_o="660" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5296ba70041b0ab57643bc2b294089cfcfacf034d84c8fd6761e0577143b404/2017.04.08_review_ibraaz_03.jpeg" data-mid="136749564" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/880/i/e5296ba70041b0ab57643bc2b294089cfcfacf034d84c8fd6761e0577143b404/2017.04.08_review_ibraaz_03.jpeg" /&#62;

	Video
	
توثيق لمدينة يافا الفلسطينية من خلال الافلام الاسرائيلية


	Daniel Majid, Musawa Channel
	31-03-2017
	&#60;img width="2560" height="1425" width_o="2560" height_o="1425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ffaa1ca5b5abf1c895b1e970668597dd9b5416dcde2baa29d0e47cada52c904/2017.03.31_video_Musawa_02.png" data-mid="135865332" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ffaa1ca5b5abf1c895b1e970668597dd9b5416dcde2baa29d0e47cada52c904/2017.03.31_video_Musawa_02.png" /&#62;

	
	Audio
	Discussion with Kamal Aljafari
	Dr. Peter Limbrick,
Palestinian Perspectives
	28-11-2016
	&#60;img width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9698cdd83b830560149bf5c4ad1d6bca608902c3762c72beb2d5ea52abce086/524d-8426-4bb3-8333-1c92c1e604c4.jpeg" data-mid="135987782" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/d9698cdd83b830560149bf5c4ad1d6bca608902c3762c72beb2d5ea52abce086/524d-8426-4bb3-8333-1c92c1e604c4.jpeg" /&#62;

	Review
	
Kamal Aljafari: A Recollection

	Hamid Dabashi,Ibraaz Magazine


	20-11-2016
	&#60;img width="1922" height="1394" width_o="1922" height_o="1394" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3855a7b1febc9d83570e6fe854dcc982a8508c97de1e2b6b045c8f70fb4630e0/2016.11.20_review_ibraaz_01.png" data-mid="136749562" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3855a7b1febc9d83570e6fe854dcc982a8508c97de1e2b6b045c8f70fb4630e0/2016.11.20_review_ibraaz_01.png" /&#62;

	Review
	

Recollection

	
Sarah Lawson,Boston Hassle

	19-10-2016
	&#60;img width="1400" height="933" width_o="1400" height_o="933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07ddf387126e36cb9782cfbf1822a66958c2eaed0b72785bd9c20bda710cc695/2016.10.19_Recollection_02.jpeg" data-mid="135865275" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07ddf387126e36cb9782cfbf1822a66958c2eaed0b72785bd9c20bda710cc695/2016.10.19_Recollection_02.jpeg" /&#62;

	Review
	The Circulation of Palestinian Images

	Viviane Saglier OFF–SCREEN Magazine
	10-2016
	&#60;img width="630" height="472" width_o="630" height_o="472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e41039b68fca3a0f9b3e06641cd228d741674a37c0f204fed0846f561c2f5af/2016.10_retrospective_saglier_05.jpeg" data-mid="135865312" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/630/i/6e41039b68fca3a0f9b3e06641cd228d741674a37c0f204fed0846f561c2f5af/2016.10_retrospective_saglier_05.jpeg" /&#62;

	Letter
	

Letter for an aborted interview

	
Nour OuaydaOFF–SCREEN Magazine
	10-2016
	&#60;img width="597" height="446" width_o="597" height_o="446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3884c9d843a282f7c87d4e7c7ffce513184b6d98f5428e3cb9e5794934fe205/2016.11_12_retrospective_letter_01A.jpg" data-mid="135865314" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/597/i/d3884c9d843a282f7c87d4e7c7ffce513184b6d98f5428e3cb9e5794934fe205/2016.11_12_retrospective_letter_01A.jpg" /&#62;

	Review
	Cinema as a country: The cinematic act as reappropriation of a contested territory
	Nour OuaydaOFF–SCREEN Magazine

	10-2016
	&#60;img width="630" height="473" width_o="630" height_o="473" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72d61fa812cc11811110a98791c55c09d2f5a18cd986f10b89196211e6aa1d68/2016.10_retrospective_11.jpeg" data-mid="135865330" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/630/i/72d61fa812cc11811110a98791c55c09d2f5a18cd986f10b89196211e6aa1d68/2016.10_retrospective_11.jpeg" /&#62;

	
Review
	Appropriate, Re-mix, Erase, Zoom-in: The Transformative Power of Film-Making in Kamal Aljafari’s Recollection

	Farah Atoui OFF–SCREEN Magazine
	10-2016
	&#60;img width="630" height="420" width_o="630" height_o="420" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26c98f87cfacee047c226e4428e2edc48f344b5c4357d055e3b56081e31e1e92/2016.10_retrospective_farah_04.jpeg" data-mid="135865305" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/630/i/26c98f87cfacee047c226e4428e2edc48f344b5c4357d055e3b56081e31e1e92/2016.10_retrospective_farah_04.jpeg" /&#62;

	Interview
	
	Fragment of a filmmaker’s work: Kamal Aljafari
	
	Christophe PosticÉtats Généraux du Film Documentaire
	27-08-2016
	&#60;img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/555a92313a145dd10f2d38b043b91b45ecf9620a0f2eeb6f5af0a48484369a7a/2016.08.27_retrospectives_01.JPG" data-mid="135987570" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/555a92313a145dd10f2d38b043b91b45ecf9620a0f2eeb6f5af0a48484369a7a/2016.08.27_retrospectives_01.JPG" /&#62;

	Interview
	 كمال الجعفري، عن إعادة تركيب الصورة والسرد في فيلم استعادة
	Alia Qudeih,
MCD Radio France
	20-06-2016
	&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/771904c107b7d836e0b0334cdb2c7848d9a51c207f21d5a1bfea4b490f7b490f/2016.06.20_interview_MCD_01-.jpg" data-mid="136809364" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/771904c107b7d836e0b0334cdb2c7848d9a51c207f21d5a1bfea4b490f7b490f/2016.06.20_interview_MCD_01-.jpg" /&#62;

	Review
	Reclaming Phantoms in Kamal Aljafari’s Recollection

	Gaetano Veninata,

Taxi Drivers
	07-03-2016
	&#60;img width="520" height="420" width_o="520" height_o="420" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6056a0888dc1500e79172726ec669e0b9f5d9b76caf7836ae7d500e583ab551/2016.03.07_Recollection_03.jpeg" data-mid="135865269" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/520/i/a6056a0888dc1500e79172726ec669e0b9f5d9b76caf7836ae7d500e583ab551/2016.03.07_Recollection_03.jpeg" /&#62;

	Interview
	Kamal Aljafari: Unfinished Balconies in the Sea
	Nathalie Handal,
Guernica Magazine
	18-02-2016
	&#60;img width="1200" height="802" width_o="1200" height_o="802" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac8ea6f1aea04f729e688b7dca3d92386b1c478d0ed59fbec70f51a7c7ff8eca/2016.02.18_interview_handal_01.jpeg" data-mid="136658779" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac8ea6f1aea04f729e688b7dca3d92386b1c478d0ed59fbec70f51a7c7ff8eca/2016.02.18_interview_handal_01.jpeg" /&#62;

	Review
	
	Lost City
	Dimitri Nasrallah,
The Walrus Magazine
	29-01-2016
	&#60;img width="800" height="450" width_o="800" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09d32f8c75ad615e10677faba9f9c04bd55d61d2b70a3e75ab0d7c1ba57aa5c6/2016.01.29_Recollection_03.jpeg" data-mid="135865266" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/09d32f8c75ad615e10677faba9f9c04bd55d61d2b70a3e75ab0d7c1ba57aa5c6/2016.01.29_Recollection_03.jpeg" /&#62;


	Video
	كمال الجعفري يقيم العدالة السينمائية لمدينة يافا الفلسطينية
	Hanan Abdullah, Reda Joudi,Monte Carlo Doualiya
	04-12-2015
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	Review

	Passages à l’acte
	Giuseppe Gariazzo,
Film Parlato
	27-10-2015
	
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	Interview
	Kamal Aljafari, la Memoria fra le rovine di Jaffa
	Cecilia Ermini,
Il Manifesto
	18-08-2015
	
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	Review
	عندما محا كمال الجعفري تشاك نوريس من يافا
	 
زينة حلبي,&#38;nbsp;Zeina G. HalabiJadaliyya Magazine
	31-05-2015
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	Review
	No Place Like Home: The Cinema of Kamal Aljafari

	Deirdre Boyle, Marit Kathryn Corneil,
Wuxia Magazine
	2013
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	Interview
	Cinematic Occupation: Kamal Al Jafari’s Port of Memory
	Sadia Shirazi,Jadaliyya
	09-08-2012
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	Review
	Inhabiting Gestures
	Gaia Tedone,Afterall
	28-03-2012
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	Review
	Middle Eastern cinema review: “Alsateh”, Kamal Aljafari
	Gaetano Veninata,
Taxi Drivers
	11-06-2011
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	Interview
	Port of Memory, Kamal Aljafari
	Marianne Poche,Journal du festival Cinéma du Réel
	19-03-2010
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	Review
	Stillness Amid A Shifting World
	Rachel Saltz,

The New York Times
	13-02-2011
	&#60;img width="2560" height="1381" width_o="2560" height_o="1381" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c40965956d5c39e625ed8edab790115eadae723a8d260c0b7ebbd8ecd7479f29/portofmemory2.png" data-mid="135865295" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c40965956d5c39e625ed8edab790115eadae723a8d260c0b7ebbd8ecd7479f29/portofmemory2.png" /&#62;

	Review
	Documentary Cinema from Around the World
	Gerald Peary,Radcliffe Magazine
	2010
	&#60;img width="929" height="742" width_o="929" height_o="742" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e60cef6f025237e55df60acb3ce15ad0ffcf4874c2b4f75456c06b473eb6ec51/2010_reviews_radcliff_02.png" data-mid="136068255" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/929/i/e60cef6f025237e55df60acb3ce15ad0ffcf4874c2b4f75456c06b473eb6ec51/2010_reviews_radcliff_02.png" /&#62;

	Interview
	This Place They Dried From The Sea: An Interview with Kamal Aljafari
	Nasrin Himada,Arena of Speculation Magazine
	2010
	&#60;img width="561" height="449" width_o="561" height_o="449" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7855b57638ee410c6904bc5bcea6e8448901709daa4f002055c5a9d0f026eb3b/2010_interview_himada_04_cut.jpg" data-mid="136068282" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/561/i/7855b57638ee410c6904bc5bcea6e8448901709daa4f002055c5a9d0f026eb3b/2010_interview_himada_04_cut.jpg" /&#62;

	
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		<title>ARCHIVIO APERTO 17: A FIDAI FILM</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 02:10:42 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Kamal Aljafari</dc:creator>

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	November 5th 2024
	Film Review
	ITA

	ARCHIVIO APERTO 17:
A FIDAI FILM
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; ︎︎︎A Fidai Film


by Luca Mannellaon FilmIdee
︎︎︎Source
&#60;img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dacc99293e7afa1bf60d7e8095020156d12028d7aca60ff2a70128081891237/Fidai-Still-5.jpg" data-mid="222362302" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3dacc99293e7afa1bf60d7e8095020156d12028d7aca60ff2a70128081891237/Fidai-Still-5.jpg" /&#62;A Fidai Film fin dal titolo sottolinea la sua carica rivoluzionaria, sabotatrice: fidai, singolare di fedayyin, indica i combattenti sabotatori nella guerriglia armata palestinese. L’ultimo film di Kamal Aljafari (Port of Memory, An Unusual Summer) sabota e sovverte, con gesto guerrigliero, le rappresentazioni propagandistiche di Israele e del suo esercito. Quando nel 1982 Israele invase Beirut, il Palestinian Research Center venne raso al suolo dalle bombe e i documenti, le fotografie e le immagini in movimento lì conservate, se non scomparvero, vennero saccheggiate dall’esercito di occupazione. Un patrimonio perduto che in&#38;nbsp;A Fidai Film&#38;nbsp;viene ri-trafugato, portato nuovamente alla luce attraverso un’operazione filmica tra documentario, cinema d’archivio e cinema sperimentale che nel sabotaggio cerca una contro-storia, un contro-racconto tanto più fondamentale e necessario nel contesto mediale occidentale di falsificazione sistematica delle informazioni visive e testuali che ci arrivano dalla Palestina dopo il 7 ottobre dello scorso anno. Presentato prima alla Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro, e da poco passato in concorso ad Archivio Aperto,&#38;nbsp;A Fidai Film&#38;nbsp;genera nuovi spazi discorsivi sull’uso e ri-uso delle immagini d’archivio e si/ci interroga sul nostro posizionamento di fronte agli archivi coloniali e alle rappresentazioni che producono.

L’archivio per Aljafari si configura come luogo materico su cui intervenire, su cui metter mano: manomettere. La manomissione avviene ad ogni livello del film: dalla produzione — dove ogni mediazione economica e culturale con i proprietari delle immagini salta (l’escamotage usato è quello del “manoscritto ritrovato”, ovvero una misteriosa chat con un amico, posta nei titoli di coda, dove si svela la provenienza delle immagini scomparse: da un posto abbandonato) — fin dentro all’immagine e alle sequenze stesse attraverso risemantizzazioni, cancellature, manipolazioni digitali. L’archivio come spazio istituzionale, generatore di sguardi e archeologia delle ideologie, viene sovvertito, de-istituzionalizzato: dalle mani e dagli occhi del colono le immagini arrivano alle mani e agli occhi del colonizzato, che le ribalta, le inverte. Il processo non è però un’altra riappropriazione, ma un gesto di condivisione e socializzazione. Aljafari rende farockianamente visibili le immagini che compongono l’universo visivo del conflitto israelo-palestinese, rifiutando le associazioni tra archivio e proprietà privata, tra archivio e segregazione: le immagini in A Fidai Film sono possibilità per la creazione di nuovi sguardi politici. In questo modo i documenti e le testimonianze “rubate” dall’esercito israeliano nel 1982 possono circolare nuovamente dentro il discorso de-coloniale e anti-imperialista della lotta palestinese. Il reenactment pacifico dell’occupazione di Jaffa del 1948 si rivela in tutta la sua atroce falsificazione storica; le lacrime di una madre di un martire si vedono nella loro estrema durezza; i bombardamenti su Beirut esplodono ancora dentro i nostri sguardi. L’archivio viene liberato (pure dai suoi confini nazionali e nazionalistici), l’immagine di propaganda restituita brechtianamente al suo reale significato. Le cancellature agiscono nello stesso senso distruggendo l’immagine, tacendo le incursioni grafiche e testuali israeliane, e allo stesso tempo dando voce ad alcuni scritti di Ghassan Kanafani, sovrascritti alle sequenze di propaganda. Come si capisce, A Fidai Film è un lavoro su un immaginario “occupato”. È quindi, fondamentalmente, un lavoro sul cinema come dispositivo del potere da sabotare dal basso, ancora: un luogo immaginario da occupare con il proprio sguardo, un edificio da ricostruire dopo la sua distruzione e scomparsa, come la città di Jaffa in&#38;nbsp;Port of Memory&#38;nbsp;(2010).

La struttura del film assomiglia a un’installazione a canali multipli che accosta intuitivamente e poeticamente le tracce di una contro-storia sull’occupazione e sul genocidio israeliano in Palestina. Il ritmo, più che dal montaggio, che segue ricorrenze e associazioni in una sorta di cronologia sfasata, si dà nella ricostruzione sonora del materiale d’archivio. Se a prima vista può sembrare un film caotico, senza una reale traccia da seguire, a una seconda visione possiamo scorgere la sua costruzione circolare e diffusa, come circolare e diffusa è la violenza che si ripete nella storia del territorio palestinese, nel museo dei giorni ripercorsi nell’archivio (Museum of Days, oltre a essere il titolo della canzone che apre e chiude il film, è anche il nome di uno dei suoi tre capitoli, The Camera of the Dispossesed&#38;nbsp;e&#38;nbsp;Epilogue).&#38;nbsp;A Fidai Film&#38;nbsp;resiste alla cancellazione e falsificazione della memoria storica che passa attraverso le immagini grazie ad altre cancellature, arrivando a modificare l’immagine con l’utilizzo di VFX, viraggi, sgranature, interventi pittorici dove il rosso del sangue riga il quadro dell’inquadratura, o nasconde volti, ricalca dei gesti, insanguina il mare. Ci scorrono davanti tantissime immagini: di gioia di rivolta di dolore, bambini fantasmi un sole infuocato campi di rifugiati. Dentro il museo dei giorni il tempo sembra fermarsi, ma in realtà riverbera rosso sul nostro presente di guerra. L’archivio è maceria, il cinema è maceria, la Palestina è maceria, ma c’è ancora tutto da costruire, ancora tanto da combattere. Ancora una colomba può spiccare il volo.

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		<title>Ji.hlava 2024: A Fidai Film (dir. Kamal Aljafari) &#124; Review</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:13:56 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Kamal Aljafari</dc:creator>

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	November 9th 2024
	Film Review
	ENG

	Ji.hlava 2024: A Fidai Film (dir. Kamal Aljafari) &#124; Review
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; ︎︎︎A Fidai Film


by Prachi Barion Film Fest Report
︎︎︎Source&#60;img width="780" height="470" src="https://i0.wp.com/film-fest-report.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/A-fidai.png?resize=780%2C470&#38;amp;ssl=1" style="width: 363.381px; height: 218.96px;"&#62; A Fidai Film (Dir. Kamal Aljafari, Germany, 78 min, 2024)
In his latest film, A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari uses stolen archival footage to craft a poignant and experimental narrative that vividly depicts the tumultuous history of Palestine and delivers a powerful critique of oppression and loss.
As part of the Constellations&#38;nbsp;segment at the 28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, renowned filmmaker Kamal Aljafari’s latest film, A Fidai Film, was screened to a fully packed auditorium in the beautiful city of Jihlava. The screening was followed by a discussion hosted by Kino Palestine, sparking significant conversation about the current situation in Palestine.

This one-hour-and-eighteen-minute film is based on lost memories and footage from archives, interspersed with stories of lost cinematic images. Taking the Israeli army’s 1982 invasion of Beirut&#38;nbsp;and the subsequent looting of the&#38;nbsp;Palestinian Research Center‘s archive as a premise, Aljafari uses these elements to create&#38;nbsp;a counter-narrative that reclaims and restores the stolen memories of Palestinian history, telling the story of Palestine before 1982 through&#38;nbsp;a poignant blend of documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques.

Using archival footage from the Ministry of Defense that included Palestinian books, photographs, and films, Aljafari recreates a new timeline. He obliterates the commentaries in red, using bold text for the film’s title, to create a celluloid collage that serves as his voice against political defiance and for creative liberty.

During the political unrest of the Lebanese Civil War&#38;nbsp;in 1982, more than 3,000 civilians were murdered by a right-wing militia coordinated with the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). Residents in the&#38;nbsp;Sabra neighborhood and Shatila refugee camps&#38;nbsp;were killed in cold blood. Israel’s goal was to dismantle the&#38;nbsp;Palestinian Liberation Organization. During the atrocity, leaders from the organization fled to Libya. The IDF later raided the&#38;nbsp;Palestine Research Center, stealing thousands of books, newspapers, press clippings, microfiches, and films from its comprehensive archive. The stories, identities, and images of the Palestinian people were stolen by their oppressors.&#38;nbsp;The film sheds light on these massacres and highlights the loss of stories and identities.

Using archival footage, the director shows timelines between the Nakba in 1948 and the looting in the 1980s. The documentary is unconventional in its weaving of stories from different timelines, compiling his own archive and overlapping it with drawings in bright blood-red color over the images and text, to strike back against Israel’s censorship.

Sound in this film is also an effective tool. Aljafari uses compositions and texts of Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani instead of concentrating on interviews alone. The sound mix echoes with ambient sounds and disturbing effects that accompany the erratic images, making the audience sit back and notice the impact on the citizens. This enhances the film’s importance as a strong source of archival material on Palestine’s struggle.


We are delighted to be reporting live from the 2024 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, running from October 25th to November 3rd, 2024.


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