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︎︎︎A Fidai Film
78min,
2024
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The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images.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 explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Funders:
Medienboard Experimentalfilm
Doha film institute
A. M. Qattan Foundation
35a Bienal de São Paulo
Atelier 105, Light Cone
The Camargo Foundation
Festivals:
Visions du Réel
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IN DEVELOPMENT
︎︎︎A Fidai Film
78min,
2024
Funders:
Medienboard Experimentalfilm
Doha film institute
A. M. Qattan Foundation
35a Bienal de São Paulo
Atelier 105, Light Cone
The Camargo Foundation
Festivals:
Visions du Réel
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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The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images.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 explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images.
Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Funders:
Medienboard Experimentalfilm
Doha film institute
A. M. Qattan Foundation
35a Bienal de São Paulo
Atelier 105, Light Cone
The Camargo Foundation
Festivals:
Visions du Réel
IN DEVELOPMENT
︎︎︎Beirut 1931
Fiction
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 institute
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
︎︎︎Beirut 1931
Fiction
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 institute
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
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 institute
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
PREVIOUS FILMS
︎︎︎UNDR
15min, 2024
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)
Year: 2024
Runtime: 15’
Countries: Palestine; Germany
Language: Arabic
Techs: Color; B&W
Festivals:
IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Forum des Images, Paris
Unarchive Film Festival, Rome
︎︎︎Paradiso, XXXI, 108
18min, 2022 – TRAILER
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.
Year: 2022
Runtime: 18’
Countries: Palestine; Germany
Language: Hebrew
Techs: Color
Festivals:
Locarno 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 & Media Arts Festival
IFFA Independent Film Festival of Athens
Filmfest Dresden
Curtas Vila do Conde
Prizes:
Preis der deutschen Filmkritik, Best Experimental Film.
80min, 2020 – TRAILER
︎︎︎It's a Long Way from Amphioxus
16min, 2019 – TRAILER
︎︎︎Recollection
70min, 2015 – TRAILER
︎︎︎Port of Memory
︎︎︎Balconies
8min, 2007 – TRAILER
︎︎︎The Roof
61min, 2006 – TRAILER
︎︎︎Visit Iraq
26min, 2003 – TRAILER
© Kamal Aljafari Productions
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Coordination
Flavia Mazzarino
Flavia Mazzarino
For information and collaborations
E. kamalaljafari.productions@gmail.com
E. kamalaljafari.productions@gmail.com
CURRENT PROJECTS
︎︎︎Paradiso, XXXI, 108
18min,
2022 – TRAILER
18min, 2022 – TRAILER
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.
Year: 2022
Runtime: 18’
Countries: Palestine; Germany
Language: Arabic
Techs: Color
Festival:
Locarno 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 & Media Arts Festival
IFFA Independent Film Festival of Athens
Filmfest Dresden
Curtas Vila do Conde
Prizes:
Preis der deutschen Filmkritik, Best Experimental Film.
︎︎︎A Fidai Film
90’,
2023 – Post-production
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 explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images.
Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Funders:
Doha Film Institute
Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg
35a Bienal de São Paulo
Initial Grant Akademie der Künste Berlin
A.M. Qattan Foundation
Festival:
︎︎︎Beirut 1931
fiction
2021 – Development
2022 – Production
︎︎︎Beirut 1931
fiction
2021 – Development
2022 – Production
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 institute
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
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 institute
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
PREVIOUS FILMS
︎︎︎An Unusual Summer
80min, 2020 – TRAILER
80min, 2020 – TRAILER
︎︎︎It's a Long Way from Amphioxus
16min, 2019 – TRAILER
16min, 2019 – TRAILER
︎︎︎Recollection
70min, 2015 – TRAILER
70min, 2015 – TRAILER
︎︎︎Port of Memory
63min, 2010 – TRAILER
63min, 2010 – TRAILER
︎︎︎Balconies
8min, 2007 – TRAILER
8min, 2007 – TRAILER
︎︎︎The Roof
61min, 2006 – TRAILER
61min, 2006 – TRAILER
︎︎︎Visit Iraq
26min, 2003 – TRAILER
26min, 2003 – TRAILER
more information at
KamalAljafari.art
© Kamal Aljafari Productions
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Coordination
Flavia Mazzarino
Flavia Mazzarino
For information and collaborations
E. kamalaljafari.productions@gmail.com
E. kamalaljafari.productions@gmail.com
