A Fidai Film

  • December 14, 2024 / 15:00

Director: Kamal Aljafari
Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brasil, France, 2023, 78', DCP, color
Arabic, English, Hebrew with Turkish, English subtitles

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 The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images.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 explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.

*This film will be screened alongside the documentary “UNDR”.

UNDR

UNDR

A Fidai Film

A Fidai Film

Passing Drama

Passing Drama

My Stolen Planet

My Stolen Planet

No Other Land

No Other Land

Dreaming Dogs

Dreaming Dogs

Black Box Diaries

Black Box Diaries

Vista Mare

Vista Mare

From Ground Zero

From Ground Zero

Cow

Cow

Feeding the River: 20 Years of Anadolu Kültür

Feeding the River: 20 Years of Anadolu Kültür

Memory Building Memories / Memory Room / Memento Mori

Memory Building Memories / Memory Room / Memento Mori

Each memory tells an intimate story; each collection presents us with the reality of containing an intimate story as well. The collection is akin to a whole in which many memories and stories of the artist, the viewer, and the collector are brought together. At the heart of a collection is memory, nurtured from the past and projecting into the future.

The Golden Horn

The Golden Horn

When regarding the paintings of Istanbul by western painters, Golden Horn has a distinctive place and value. This body of water that separates the Topkapı Palace and the Historical Peninsula, in which monumental edifices are located, from Galata, where westerners and foreign embassies dwell, is as though an interpenetrating boundary.

Midnight Stories: COGITO <br> Tevfik Uyar

Midnight Stories: COGITO
Tevfik Uyar

He had imagined the court room as a big place. It wasn’t. It was about the size of his living room, with an elevation at one end, with a dais on it. The judges and the attorneys sat there. Below it was an old wooden rail, worn out in some places. That was his place. There was another seat for his lawyer. At the back, about 20 or 30 chairs were stowed out for the non-existent crowd.