Fertile Memory
الذاكرة الخصبة- PALESTINE, GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS, BELGUIM / 1980 / Arabic / Color / 16mm / 99 min
Director: Michel Khleifi
Photography: Marc-André Batigne, Yves van der Meeren
Sound: Ricardo Castro
Appearances: Farah Hatoum, Sahar Khalifeh
Two women. One living in the north of Israel, and the other in the West Bank. In portraying their everyday lives through thoughtful dialogue, it shows that daily routines and personal choices can become a form of resistance against Israeli occupation and patriarchy, and also became as a foundation for contemporary Palestinian cinema.
A Magical Substance Flows into Me
في اثر مادة سحرية- PALESTINE, UK / 2016 / Arabic, Hebrew, English / Color / Digital File / 68 min
Director, Script: Jumana Manna
Photography: Daniel Kedem
Editing: Katrin Ebersohn, Jumana Manna
Sound: Antoine Brochu
Sound Mixing, Sound Design: Jochen Jezussek
Color Correction: Wolfgang Gaube
Executive Producer: Polly Staple
Associate Producer: Salim Abu Jabal
In 1930s Palestine, at the time of the British Mandate, a German-Jewish researcher of “oriental” music, Robert Lachmann, hosted a radio program. Efforts to recreate this program highlight not only the contradictions and limits of the colonial perspective but also the appeal of music in resistance to annihilation and as passed down in the course of everyday life.
A Fidai Film
الفيلم عمل فدائي- PALESTINE, GERMANY, QATAR, BRAZIL, FRANCE / 2024 / Arabic, Hebrew, English / Color / Digital file / 78 min
Director, Conceived by: Kamal Aljafari
Editing: Kamal Aljafari, Yannig Willmann
Sound: Attila Faravelli
Line Producer, Assistant Editing: Flavia Mazzarino
Music: Simon Fisher Turner
Sound Mixing: Jochen Jezussek
Voice: Darin Dibsy, Kamal Aljafari
Production Company: Kamal Aljafari Productions
Film and photographic materials held at the Palestinian Research Center in Beirut was looted by Israeli forces and altered to look like historical documents supporting the narrative of the founding of the Israeli nation. As an act of protest against this falsification of history, the filmmaker blots out captions and subjects that Israel inserted into these materials and reverses their meaning, resurrecting Palestinian history.