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An Unusual Summer

An Unusual Summer
An Unusual Summer
SYNOPSIS

Following an act of vandalism, the Palestinian filmmaker's father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of the house. Everyday family life, or neighbours going to work, An Unusual Summer captures fleeting moments of poetry whereas, in the background, the daily choreography of El Ramle, comes to the surface.

 
Documentary 
Palestine
2020
Arabic with English subtitles
80 minutes
16+
 
Director: Kamal Aljafari 
 Producers: Kamal Aljafari
Cinematography: Abedeljalil Aljafari
Editing: Kamal Aljafari
 

 

 

Kamal Aljafari
Kamal Aljafari

Kamal Aljafari works with moving and still images, interweaving between fiction, non-fiction, and art. Kamal’s past films include ‘Unusual Summer’ (2020), ‘Recollection’ (2015), ‘Port of Memory’ (2009), and ‘The Roof’ (2006). He was a featured artist at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (NYC) and was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Film Study Center.