Anthology Film Archives will be screening two films by Palestinian filmmaker Khaled Jarrar: Notes on Displacement (2022) on February 14 thru February 20, and Infiltrators (2012) on February 15 and 16 (at Anthology Film Archives Theaters, 32 Second Avenue New York, NY)

Notes on Displacement follows Nadira, an elderly Palestinian, who has been a refugee since the age of 12. Now, she has to leave Damascus, too. She and her daughter, Mona, feared for their lives in Syria, but the idea of a safe existence elsewhere is still a distant dream. Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar receives unsettling videos and voice messages as they cross to the Greek island of Lesbos and joins them there, on the long road to a better life, experiencing firsthand what it means to be a refugee in this stunningly visceral exploration of displacement.

In Infiltrators, Khaled Jarrar shadows West Bank residents as they search for ways to bypass the highly militarized Israeli apartheid wall that separates them from Jerusalem. Over, under, or through, with great difficulty and risk, the infiltrators are by turn people who wish to visit relatives in hospitals, religious women trying to reach Al Aqsa, teenage boys tasked with “smuggling” bread, or, most often, construction workers: Palestinian men whose labor will be used to build up the city they are not permitted to enter. Alternating between cigarette breaks, detours, waiting, climbing, escaping, and confrontation, Infiltrators depicts the constant struggle both to survive and to resist captivity and occupation.

Reserve your tickets for these one-off screenings here.