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 and visual artist known for his exploration of the Palestinian experience through experimental techniques. He studied at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne and has held teaching positions at The New School in New York and the DFFB in Berlin. His most recent film, ‘A Fidai Film’ (2024), played at numerous film festivals and art spaces and won more than 15 awards internationally. He is currently completing his new film, ‘With Hasan in Gaza’, and is a Fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Columbia University in Paris.
Awards and Festival History
Festivals
Visions du Reel 2020 (WP – online edition)
AwardsBest Film, Contemporary FF 2020