Logo
Logo


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:

 




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)





PREVIOUS FILMS




︎︎︎An Unusual Summer


80min, 2020 – TRAILER






︎︎︎It's a Long Way from Amphioxus


16min, 2019 – TRAILER






︎︎︎Recollection

70min, 2015 – TRAILER






︎︎︎Port of Memory


63min, 2010 – TRAILER






︎︎︎Balconies


8min, 2007 – TRAILER





︎︎︎The Roof



61min, 2006 – TRAILER






︎︎︎Visit Iraq

26min, 2003 – TRAILER








© Kamal Aljafari Productions
Berlin, Germany


Coordination
Flavia Mazzarino


For information and collaborations
E. kamalaljafari.productions@gmail.com

            

  CURRENT PROJECTS



︎︎︎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:        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   

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.


Funders:
Doha film institute
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
Metafora Production



  PREVIOUS FILMS



︎︎︎An Unusual Summer
80min, 2020 – TRAILER





︎︎︎It's a Long Way from Amphioxus
16min, 2019 – TRAILER





︎︎︎Recollection
70min, 2015 – TRAILER





︎︎︎Port of Memory
63min, 2010 – TRAILER





︎︎︎Balconies
8min, 2007 – TRAILER





︎︎︎The Roof
61min, 2006 – TRAILER





︎︎︎Visit Iraq
26min, 2003 – TRAILER


 more information at 
 KamalAljafari.art







© Kamal Aljafari Productions
Berlin, Germany


Coordination
Flavia Mazzarino


For information and collaborations
E. kamalaljafari.productions@gmail.com