de Kamal Aljafari
78 min, 2024
Durant l’été 1982, l’armée israélienne envahit Beyrouth. Elle pille alors le Centre de recherche palestinien et saccage l’intégralité de ses archives. Ces archives renferment des documents historiques sur la Palestine, notamment une collection d’images fixes et animées. Partant de ce constat, le film « A Fidai Film » explore la mémoire visuelle de ce pillage et s’approprie des images désormais conservées dans les archives israéliennes.
Kamal Aljafari (Palestine) is a filmmaker and artist born in Ramla in 1972. His films have screened at major festivals and museums, including Locarno, London, Viennale, and the 35th Bienal de São Paulo. He has received prestigious awards from FIDMarseille, Pesaro, and Visions du Réel. In 2024, IndieLisboa hosted a full retrospective of his work. Aljafari has taught at The New School and DFFB in Berlin and was a Film Study Center fellow at Harvard. Currently a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination, he is developing “Beirut 1931,” a fiction film to be shot in Jaffa.
