1. IDFA: A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari - 21.11.2024 - Podium Mozaiek
A Fidai Film is een mengeling van found footage en experimentele cinema. Delen van het beeld zijn uitgeknipt, of vervangen door materiaal uit de achtergrond.
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2. IDFA: A Fidai Film - Kamal Aljfari - Iamsterdam.com
'A Fidai Film' by Kamal Aljafari will be shown at Podium Mozaïek during the IDFA film festival.

3. A Fidai Film (2024) | IDFA Festival
A Fidai Film. Kamal Aljafari. Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France, Palestine. 2024. 78 min. Dutch Premiere.
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.

4. IDFA: A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari - 21.11.2024 - Podium Mozaiek
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 ...
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5. A Fidai Film | Eye Filmmuseum
Poignant found footage film on the looting of archives during the civil war in Lebanon, in 1982. What can we see, feel and perhaps comprehend from archival ...
Poignant found footage film on the looting of archives during the civil war in Lebanon, in 1982. What can we see, feel and perhaps comprehend from archival materials? It is a dialogue that can only begin with putting a mirror in front of archives.

6. 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 ...
Kamal Aljafari (Palestine) is a filmmaker and artist born in Ramla in 1972. His work is largely affiliated with the world of documentary, although he employs a variety of different procedures and formats that position the visual arts in dialogue with the essay film and experimental cinema. One of the hallmarks of his process lies in the manipulation of images in an attempt to extrapolate their figurative nature, as in his treatment of domestic surveillance footage. Aljafari received an MFA from Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2003). His films have screened at festivals and museums worldwide, including Fondazione Prada, Sharjah Film Platform, Locarno Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, Nuova Orfeo, Curtas Vila do Conde, London Film Festival, Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, EXiS, Viennale, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, and the 35th Bienal de São Paulo. He is the recipient of major awards from FIDMarseille, Pesaro Film Festival, and Visions du Réel, among others. A full retrospective of his work to date was held at IndieLisboa in 2024. Writing about his films has appeared in Variety, cineuropa, Middle East Eye, Off Screen, and elsewhere. Aljafari has taught at The New School and the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. He has received a fellowship from the Film Study Center-Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and is currently a fellow at the...

7. A Fidai Film - MSP Film Society
18th Arab Film Festival. Saturday, September 28 at 2:30pm. The screening of A Fidai Film (78 min) is preceded by Undr (15 min).
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 […]

8. Eye on Palestine: A Fidai Film (2024) - KASKcinema
Eye on Palestine: A Fidai Film (2024). Kamal Aljafari i.s.m. Courtisane. ticket: €8 (standaard) / €4 (reductie). RESERVEER. visionsdureel ... Watch on. 0:00.
In de zomer van 1982 viel het Israëlische leger Zuid-Libanon binnen en bereikte West-Beiroet, waar het Palestijns Research Centrum sinds 1965 een omvangrijk archief van foto’s, films en documenten had opgebouwd. Dit archief werd als oorlogsbuit meegenomen.
9. Eye on Palestine, A Fidai Film (2024) - KASK & Conservatorium
A Fidai Film is a unique blend of found footage and experimental cinema, with collage-like elements dancing around the red of mourning and resistance.
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.

10. 2024 Festival Programme — London Palestine Film Festival
... CINEMA | ICA | Riverside Studios | SOAS UNIVERSITY | Sands Films Studio ... And to what purpose is it being used? A Fidai Film. Sunday 24 November | 16 ...
Following the commissioned performance which opened the festival at Barbican Cinema 1 on Friday, November 15, London Palestine Film Festival returned to 10 cinemas across London with its annual programme showcasing both highly established filmmakers as well as fresh and emerging talent. The 2024 edition of the festival featured new releases and archival footage on the big screen at Barbican Cinemas, Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Hoxton and Soho, ICA and The Garden Cinema, Genesis, Riverside Studios, Sands Films Studio and SOAS University of London - and the national screenings of From Ground Zero from Scotland to Oxford.

11. A Fidai Film - SEMINCI
... 2024-2025. In May 2024, IndieLisboa highlighted his contributions to cinema by dedicating its retrospective section to his work. Additionally, his ...
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.

12. A Fidai Film - Kamal Aljafari
A Fidai Film. Qumra Screenings - Qumra 2024. Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / 2024 / 78 min / Colour / DCP2K / In ...
Qumra 2024
13. Gimme Some Truth: A Fidai Film | Dave Barber Cinematheque
Dir. Kamal Aljafari 2024, Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France, 78 min. Arabic, Hebrew and English with English subtitles. Rated 18A.
A Fidai Film aims to create a counter-narrative to loss, presenting a form of cinematic sabotage that seeks to reclaim and restore the looted memories of Palestinian history.
