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"Images are not something that you make but something that you find." This concept is at the core of Kamal Aljafari's ideology, as he creates an immersive time-machine journey that reclaims stolen Palestinian heritage.
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Nominated for Editing
Kamal Aljafari and Yannig Willmann
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Original title: A Fidai Film Year of Production: 2024 Duration: 78 min Country of Production: Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brasil, France Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, English Subtitles: English Director: Kamal Aljafari Editor: Kamal Aljafari, Yannig Willmann Script: Kamal Aljafari Sound Design: Attila Faravelli, Jochen Jezussek, Simon Fisher Turner Music: Simon Fisher Turner Producer: Flavia Mazzarino, Kamal Aljafari

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The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images.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” aims to create a counter-narrative to this loss, presenting a form of cinematic sabotage that seeks to reclaim and restore the looted memories of Palestinian history. It is a poignant exploration of identity, memory, and resistance through a unique blend of documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques.

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Kamal Aljafari a Palestinian artist, film director and producer. His work has been shown at film festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, Viennale, Rotterdam, and museums such as the MoMA and Tate Modern.

Kamal Aljafari works with moving images, interweaving fiction, non-fiction, and art. His work proceeds from a belief in an exploration of cinema's power to bear witness. His work has been shown at various international film festivals and institutions. In 2021, he was a jury member for the Leopard of Tomorrow section of the 74th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. He was a featured artist at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (New York, USA) and was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Film Study Center.

“For a man who no longer has a country, to write becomes a place to live. For a Palestinian, the cinema is a country.”
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Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian artist, film director and producer. His work has been shown at film festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, Viennale, Rotterdam, and museums such as the MoMA and Tate Modern. Yannig Willmann is a diverse filmmaker and artist. He works with sculpture, video, VFX, installations and computer graphics.

Kamal Aljafari works with moving images, interweaving fiction, non-fiction, and art. His work proceeds from a belief in an exploration of cinema's power to bear witness. His work has been shown at various international film festivals and institutions.

Willmann's work involves editing and colouring, and he has done three films with Kamal Aljafari so far; UNDR (short, 2024), A Fidai Film (2024) and Paradiso, XXXI, 108 (short, 2019)

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Attila Faravelli, Jochen Jezussek

Attila Faravelli is an Italian sound artist and electro-acoustic musician. Within his practice - which encompasses field recording, performances, workshops and design - he explores the material involvement with the world around us. His work has been featured in various festivals and institutions internationally. He has collaborated with, among others, Armin Linke, Rossella Biscotti, Riccardo Giacconi, Kamal Aljafari, Gürcan Keltek, Teatro Valdoca and Mariangela Gualtieri. He is founder and curator for the Aural Tools project, a series of simple objects to document the material and conceptual processes of specific musicians’ sound production practice. https://auraltools.tumblr.com

Simon Fisher Turner is renowned for his film soundtrack work which started in collaboration with Derek Jarman, for whom he scored many feature films – from Caravaggio (1986), through to Jarman’s final work Blue (1993). With a career as varied and diverse as his current projects, Simon Fisher Turner began as a young actor in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, and in between then and now has released records under his own name and as The King Of Luxembourg and Deux Filles.

Joche Jezussek has over 100 credits to his name as Soa und engineer and mixing different fields: movie, theatre, art and radioplay. Collaborations with amongst others Thomas Arslan (»Helle Nächte«, Berlinale 2017), Omer Fast (»Reden ist nicht immer die Lösung«, exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau 2016/17), Hein Emigholz (»Streetscape Series«, Berlinale 2017) and Irene v. Alberti (»Der lange Sommer der Theorie«, Filmfest München 2017) and Barbara (2012), Transit (2018).