Sunday, September 15, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, in person at the Camden International Film Festival, Camden, ME (map)
A Fidai Film by Kamal Aljafari
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.
Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker renowned for his distinctive approach to cinema. After studying at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, he now resides in Berlin, Germany. Aljafari has shared his expertise in filmmaking through teaching positions at The New School in New York and the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Berlin. His contributions to the field were recognised with fellowships at the Film Study Center - Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and most recently at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia University 2024-2025.
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