In the framework of the 6th edition of the Festival de Cinema En Ville! that takes place from January 23 to February 2nd 2025 in Brussels.
Port of Memory
Kamal Aljafari,
In Arab and Hebrew with English and French subtitles
In the ruins of the city of Jaffa, a man on the verge of losing his home ponders his fate. Meanwhile, two women remain locked in their homes. One finds solace in caring for her mother, the other nurtures romantic dreams by making wedding decorations. In a neighbouring café, an old captain sits motionless all day, while another man flails about like a fish in a bowl. These rituals are ways for these Palestinian men and women to keep hope alive.
Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari studied at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln and currently lives in Berlin. He has taught filmmaking at The New School (New York) and the DFFB (Berlin). He is a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination of Columbia University. In May 2024, IndieLisboa dedicated a retrospective to his work. In 2024 his film UNDR was selected at IFFR and A Fidai Film at Visions du Réel, where it won the Grand Jury Prize Burning Lights Competition. Aljafari is currently working on a fiction film to be shot in Jaffa.
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