A Fidai Film
الفيلم عمل فدائي

Documentary, director: Kamal Aljafari, Palestine/Qatar/Germany/Brazil, 2024, 78 min, AR/EN/Hebrew, with EN st.

> Friday 25.4.2025 | 18:00
Sinema Transtopia | Tickets

Followed by a Masterclass with Kamal Aljafari.

In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut, raiding the Palestine Research Center and seizing its entire archive. This collection, which preserved historical records of Palestine, included both still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film seeks to construct a counter-narrative to loss. Through an artistic intervention that dwells on subverting and exposing attempts to erase Palestinian existence, Aljafari reclaims the colonial image, disrupts its narratives, and builds a counter-archive, one that challenges how power shapes memory.

A Fidai Film premiered in the Visions du Réel film festival where it won the Jury Prize in the Burning Lights Competition. It has been touring the world since, collecting many awards, among them the International Feature Award at DokuFest, Cinematic Vision Award at the Camden International Film Festival, and the Tanit d’Or at the Carthage Film festival.