The Process of Dehumanization
Kamal Aljafari was interviewed by Flavia Dima for the Filmmaker Magazine.
“It’s been a busy year for Kamal Aljafari. One of the most innovative voices working in contemporary found footage cinema, the Palestinian filmmaker’s latest feature, A Fidai Film (which premiered this past spring at Visions du Reel in Nyon, Switzerland, where it won the Jury Award of the Burning Lights section) has propelled him to a wholly new level of fame – and deservedly so. Often traveling alongside his latest short film, UNDR (which premiered at IFFR), A Fidai Film has been screened in almost three dozen festivals, while Aljafari has been the subject of two major retrospectives at Anthology Film Archives and IndieLisboa. At the same time, tightening restrictions around pro-Palestinian discourse in Germany have prompted Aljafari to relocate from the country he had been living and working in for decades and quitting Berlin for Paris, where he is developing a new film, based on footage that he had shot in Gaza more than twenty years ago.”
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