On Sunday 17 November, 4.15 pm, the screening of the film A Fidai Film (2024) by Kamal Aljafari is followed by a conversation between the director and critic Sergio Fant.
A film that reflects on the subversive power of images, as personal as it is political, which is first and foremost a reflection on what an act of resistance is. ‘This film is not about the past, but about the future, which can still be shaped. It is a work that can only begin by placing a mirror in front of the colonial archives. I am sabotaging the colonial gaze.’ (Kamal Aljafari)
The event is realised in collaboration with Archivio Aperto and FESCAAAL.
BIOGRAPHY
Kamal Aljafari (Ramallah, Palestine, 1972) graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Cologne. His first short film, Visit Iraq (2003), received several awards, including a Sundance Documentary Fund award. His feature debut The Roof (2006) was awarded at the Images Festival in Toronto and FID in Marseille. In 2010, he participated in the Torino Film Festival with Port of Memory (2009). In recent years, he has made Recollections (2015), It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus (2019), An Unusual Summer (2020), Paradiso, XXXI, 108 (2022), and the award-winning A Fidai Film (2023).