A Fidai Film

Composed of archival fragments, A Fidai Film reconstructs the visual memory of Palestine, reclaiming images that were plundered from the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut in 1982.

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Credits

  • Director

    Kamal Aljafari

  • Palestine 2024. 78min

  • Courtesy of

    Kamal Aljafari Productions

  • Languages

    Arabic, Hebrew, English

    With English subtitles

Introduction

Re-positioning archival fragments and burning through parts of the original image in searing red, A Fidai Film lays bare the looting of Palestinian visual history. Aljafari’s singular and striking editing technique creates a counter-narrative that reclaims and re-imagines images and footage plundered from the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut.

Maria Paradinas

Screening with

UNDR

  • Director

    Kamal Aljafari

  • Palestine 2024. 15min

This unsettling archival re-working uses aerials to explore the surveying, ever-watchful eye of the occupier, hanging over the land.

Content warning

Contains flashing images and distressing scenes.

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