Kamal Aljafari

Kamal Aljafari (b. 1972, Ramla, Palestine; based in Berlin) is a pioneering Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist whose formally nuanced work reconstructs memory and dispossession. A graduate of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, his poetic cinema spans feature films (The Roof, Port of Memory, Recollection) and installations such as The Camera of the Dispossessed. His films have been screened at Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno and CPH:DOX and at institutions including MoMA and Tate Modern.

Red silhouettes draw an alternative future in looted Palestinian archival footage. A compelling film re-interpreting a past and possible future.

Kamal Aljafari
Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France 2024 78' In Focus: Kamal Aljafari and the Imagination of Palestine leff 2025