A FIDAI FILM

2024 ‘78 / Doc

Scénario Kamal Aljafari

DOP Kamal Aljafar

Montage

Kamal Aljafari

Yannig Willmann

Palestine

SYNOPSIS

In summer 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut, seizing the Palestinian Research

Center’s archives. A Fidai Film revisits this visual memory, using images from The

occupier’s archives to underscore cultural erasure’s impact on Palestinian history.

KAMAL ALJAFARI

Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker. His film ‘A Fidai Film’ won the grand

jury prize at Visions du Réel 2024. He is currently developing a fiction film, “Beirut

1931”, set to be shot in Jaffa.