An Unusual Summer
Fall Grants 2019
Kamal Aljafari / Feature Experimental or Essay / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / 80 min / Original Language: Arabic, English / Interests: Animation, Docufiction
Synopsis
My father installed a surveillance camera and recorded the scenes in front of the house, continuously. Without human interference or awareness in the making of the image, my father’s camera captures an absurd choreography of characters and events in the so-called “Arab Ghetto” of Ramle in today’s Israel.
Credits
- Director
- Kamal Aljafari
- Screenwriter
- Kamal Aljafari
- Producer
- Kamal Aljafari
- Production Company
- Kamal Aljafari Productions
About the Director
Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker. He attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and now lives in Berlin, Germany. He has taught filmmaking at The New School in New York and the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). He was also a Film Study Center Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. In 2021, Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival in Brazil devoted its Focus Section to his work. Aljafari’s 'Paradiso, XXXI, 108' premiered at Corti d'Autore, at the Locarno Film Festival 2022.
Awards and Festival History
Festivals
Visions du Reel 2020 (WP – online edition)
AwardsBest Film, Contemporary FF 2020
Contacts
-
Main Contact
Kamal Aljafari
- Company:
- Kamal Aljafari Productions
- Email:
- kamalaljafari.productions@gmail.com