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
35^a Bienal de São Paulo


Festivals:

 

︎︎︎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)

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