Kamal Aljafari
Documentary
Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brasil, France
78’ | 2024
Arabic, English, Hebrew with English Subtitles
In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive.
The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images.
Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Edited by: Kamal Aljafari, Yannig Willmann
Sound: Attila Faravelli
Line Producer & Assistant Editing: Flavia Mazzarino
Original Music: Simon Fisher Turner
Sound Mixing: Jochen Jezussek
Voice: Darin Dibsy, Kamal Aljafari
Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari studied at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln and currently lives in Berlin. He has taught filmmaking at The New School (New York) and the DFFB (Berlin). He is a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination of Columbia University. In May 2024, IndieLisboa dedicated a retrospective to his work. In 2024 his film UNDR was selected at IFFR and A Fidai Film at Visions du Réel, where it won the Grand Jury Prize Burning Lights Competition. Aljafari is currently working on a fiction film, “Beirut 1931”, to be shot in Jaffa.