Synopsis
In the Mediterranean Sea, a lost city, a memory that does not fade, that persists in keeping it from being forgotten from generation to generation. Oral sources, archive images, and sound bring the city to life. As if we were strolling through its streets and attending its very first shows and screenings, director Rashid Masharawi takes us on a tour of the birthplace of his parents and grandparents, who were forced into exile in 1948. Recovery is a cinematic experience that attempts to cloud the limits between time and space as we are taken on a tour of photos from 1930 to 1948, allowing Masharawi’s nostalgia to breathe new life into the static bodies portrayed.
60 minutes
2021
Palestine
Arabic dialogue with English subtitles
Director/ Scriptwriter: Rashid Masharawi
Producer: Rashid Masharawi, Mouhamad Keblawi, and Laura Nikolov
Cast: Taher Al Qalyubi
Production Company: Cinema Production Center
Middle East Distribution: Masharawi Films, Close-Up North
Rashid Masharawi is an acclaimed Palestinian filmmaker whose films, all showing with irony the daily life in Palestine, won several prizes and were shown at international and Arab film festivals for decades. In 1996, he founded Cinema Production and Distribution Center (CPC) in Ramallah in order to train young Palestinian filmmakers and develop a Palestinian cinema.