1. A Fidai Film (2024) | IDFA Festival
Stills · Acting · All Is Well · Apocalypse in the Tropics · Architecton · At this Moment, in the Nation's Sky · Averroès & Rosa Parks · The Belle from Gaza.
In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded South Lebanon. They advanced as far as West Beirut, which had been home to the Palestine Research Center and its vast collection of photographs, films, and documents since 1965. The Israeli army seized the archive as war booty. This history forms the departure point for Kamal Aljafari’s reconstruction of a revitalized Palestinian visual record, a sort of counter-archive that he calls “the camera of the dispossessed.” A Fidai Film is a blend of found footage and experimental cinema, with parts of the image cut out or replaced with material from the background, and title texts scratched out with red marks. The film is a treasure trove of footage about Palestinian life before and after the Nakba, accompanied by a soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner and texts by writers including Gassan Kanafani. Each image and montage embodies history and art, longing and sadness and resistance and sabotage.
2. A Fidai Film - Visions du Réel
In A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari(An Unusual Summer, VdR 2020) turns this primordial plundering against those who perpetrated it.
Lors de l’intervention militaire au Liban à l’été 1982, Tsahal confisque les archives du Centre de recherches palestinien de Beyrouth, comprenant une
3. A Fidai Film - SEMINCI
Screenings ; DIRECTOR. Kamal Aljafari ; SCREENPLAY. Kamal Aljafari, Ghassan Kanafani ; CINEMATOGRAPHY. Kamal Aljafari ; EDITOR. Kamal Aljafari, Yannig Willmann.
In 1965, the Palestine Research Centre (PRC) was established in Beirut to preserve the cultural archives of Palestine's history and political struggle. Seventeen years later, the Israeli army raided this archive, appropriating the entire cultural heritage. The award-winning film A Fidai Film, awarded at Visions du Réel, is an archaeological exercise that brings to light many of the images that have remained hidden in the Israeli files since then. Photos and videos that acquire new meanings here, in a double process of reclaiming and restoring a lost legacy. Kamal Alfajari reflects on the links between a country's visual memory and its resistance history, revealing the systematic invisibility of the Palestinian people. Demonstrating that another narrative is possible and, above all, that cinema remains a powerful tool for liberation.
4. A Fidai Film - MSP Film Society
ABOUT Undr. Dir. Kamal Aljafari • Palestine, Germany • 2024 • 15 min • Experimental/Documentary • Arabic Helicopter footage examines the desert, surveying ...
18th Arab Film Festival Saturday, September 28 at 2:30pm The screening of A Fidai Film (78 min) is preceded by Undr (15 min). ABOUT A Fidai Film Dir. Kamal Aljafari • Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France • 2024 • 78 min • Essay/Documentary • English, Arabic, Hebrew In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded […]
5. A Fidai Film - Points North Institute
In May 2024, IndieLisboa will highlight his contributions to cinema by dedicating its retrospective Section to his work and it will take place at the Portuguese ...
A film is a fida’i act. In Arabic, “fida’i” means to give oneself fully in service of another, and is linked to the Fidayyin, the freedom fighters of the Palestinian revolution of the 60s and 70s. Kamal Aljafari embraces that revolutionary spirit by recentering Israel’s 1982 looting of Palestinian archives in Beirut. In a captivating cinematic practice of reclamation and resistance, A FIDAI FILM makes visible what was/is Palestinian in the archival image, countering historical appropriation and amnesia. Caution: Film contains strobing lights.
6. A Fidai Film - Budapest - VERZIO Film Festival
Nov 7, 2024 · In May 2024, IndieLisboa dedicated a retrospective to his work. In 2024 his film UNDR (2024) was selected at IFFR and A Fidai Film (2024) at ...
Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival was founded by staff members of Blinken OSA Archive in 2004. Verzió Film Foundation was established in the following year to provide a stable background for the organization of the festival. The founders’ vision was to create a platform, till then missing from Hungary, for international documentary films with a focus on human rights.
7. A Fidai Film - RIDM
6 days ago · In A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari reclaims Palestinian history from the shadows of erasure. Using footage seized from the Palestine Research ...
In A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari reclaims Palestinian history from the shadows of erasure. Using footage seized from the Palestine Research Center during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Beirut, Aljafari disrupts the colonial narratives that have long dominated these visuals. By re-editing, distorting, and re-contextualizing the archival material, he resurrects the suppressed stories and struggles of the Palestinian people. This film is a cinematic protest that redefines how history is remembered and narrated, where every frame challenges the viewer to reconsider whose story is being told. Aljafari’s approach turns a once-lost archive into a powerful statement against historical dispossession, blending experimental art and activism in a way that reshapes the boundaries of documentary cinema. (ME)
8. Ji.hlava 2024: A Fidai Film (dir. Kamal Aljafari) | Review - Film Fest Report
Nov 22, 2024 · In his latest film, A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari uses stolen archival footage to craft a poignant and experimental narrative that vividly ...
In his latest film, “A Fidai Film,” Kamal Aljafari uses stolen archival footage to craft a poignant and experimental narrative that vividly depicts the tumultuous history of Palestine a…
9. A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari, 2024 - Media City Film Festival
A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari, Palestine, digital, 78 min, 2024. In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time ...
Media City Film Festival is an annual international festival of film and digital art, presented in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan since 1994. It is the only organization in the world to regularly present artists’ film on both sides of an international border.
10. A FIDAI FILM - FilmScene
A FIDAI FILM. Refocus Film Festival. Director: Kamal Aljafari. Featuring ... 2024. Watch Trailer. In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut ...
11. A Fidai Film | Screen Slate
Nov 9, 2024 · A Fidai Film (2024) re-appropriates materials that were looted from the Palestinian Research Center during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
A Fidai Film (2024) re-appropriates materials that were looted from the Palestinian Research Center during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Many of these materials are currently held in Israeli archives and were obtained through clandestine means by filmmaker Kamal Aljafari. In Arabic, the word “Fidai” means “one who sacrifices himself” and it was generally used to refer to Guerrilla fighters in the Palestinian context before falling out of favor in the 1980s. However, Aljafari references how the term was used by Israelis to mean “saboteurs” in relation to these fighters.
12. A Fidai Film | Viennale
A Fidai Film · Kamal Aljafari · Yannig Willmann.
Kamal Aljafari, Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France, 2024, 78min, During Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, its Defence Force looted the archive of the Palestinian Research Centre,…
13. A Fidai Film wins at the 14th Lanzarote Film Festival - Cineuropa
23 hours ago · 02/12/2024 - The jury of the official section deliberated in front of the audience at the Canary Islands competition, deciding that Kamal ...
02/12/2024 - The jury of the official section deliberated in front of the audience at the Canary Islands competition, deciding that Kamal Aljafari's film deserved the award for Best Feature Film
14. A Fidai Film | Ji.hlava IDFF
Kamal Aljafari / Germany / 2024 / Czech Premiere / 78 min. synopsis. In the summer of 1982, during the intervention in Lebanon, the Israeli army left behind ...
A Fidai Film
15. A Fidai Film - | Palestine Cinema Days
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 ...
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 WillmannSound: Attila FaravelliLine Producer & Assistant Editing: Flavia Mazzarino
16. A Fidai Film - MIRAGE
Oct 13, 2024 · Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian artist, film director and producer. His work has been shown at film festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, ...
Kamal Aljafari
17. Eye on Palestine, A Fidai Film (2024) - KASK & Conservatorium
02.12.24, 20:30, Eye on Palestine, A Fidai Film (2024) ... In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded southern Lebanon and reached West Beirut, where the ...
In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded southern Lebanon and reached West Beirut, where the Palestinian Research Centre had built up a vast archive of photographs, films and documents since 1965.
18. A Fidai Film - DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
Born in Palestine, 1972. Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker renowned for his distinctive approach to cinema. He installation The Camera of the ...
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