CURRENT FILM





︎︎︎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.
IN POST-PRODUCTION


︎︎︎A Fidai Film
120min,
2023 – Post-Production
Investigating the looting of Palestinian films which took place in Beirut in 1982, the film uses this event as a premise to make visible materials hidden in Israeli archives, and proposes a counter-narrative of a continuous history of occupation and appropriation.
Funders:
Medienboard Experimentalfilm
Doha film institute
Initial Grant Akademie der Künste Berlin
A. M. Qattan Foundation
35a Bienal de São Paulo
Festivals:
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︎︎︎A Fidai Film
120min,
2023 – Post-Production
Funders:
Medienboard Experimentalfilm
Doha film institute
Initial Grant Akademie der Künste Berlin
A. M. Qattan Foundation
35a Bienal de São Paulo
Festivals:
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Investigating the looting of Palestinian films which took place in Beirut in 1982, the film uses this event as a premise to make visible materials hidden in Israeli archives, and proposes a counter-narrative of a continuous history of occupation and appropriation.
Funders:
Medienboard Experimentalfilm
Doha film institute
Initial Grant Akademie der Künste Berlin
A. M. Qattan Foundation
35a Bienal de São Paulo
Festivals:

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

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:


︎︎︎A Fidai Film
120’, 2021 – Post-production
A sabotage film in response to looting of memories
Funders:
Doha Film Institute
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
What kind of madness is it to remain in a place that is lost to you?
What departures are possible, if one no longer has a self to leave from?
A melodic film to be shot in Palestine.
What departures are possible, if one no longer has a self to leave from?
A melodic film to be shot in Palestine.
Funders:
Doha film institute
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
Metafora Production
Funders:
Doha film institute
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
Metafora Production
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
