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An Unusual Summer

Fall Grants 2019

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 renowned for his distinctive approach to cinema. After studying at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, he now resides in Berlin, Germany. Aljafari has shared his expertise in filmmaking through teaching positions at The New School in New York and the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Berlin. His contributions to the field were recognised with a fellowship at the Film Study Center Radcliffe at Harvard University. In 2021, the Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival in Brazil highlighted his contributions to cinema by dedicating its Focus Section to his work. Additionally, his installation “The Camera of the Dispossessed” was showcased at the 35th Bienal de São Paulo (2023). His short film ‘UNDR’ made its debut at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in 2024. Aljafari recently completed ‘A Fidai Film’ and is currently developing a fiction film set to be shot in Jaffa.

Awards and Festival History

Festivals

Visions du Reel 2020 (WP – online edition)

Awards

Best Film, Contemporary FF 2020

Contacts

• Main Contact

  Kamal Aljafari

  Company: 

  Kamal Aljafari Productions

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