In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.

Conceived and Directed by: Kamal Aljafari | 78min | 2023 | Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brasil, France

"Using archive material of destroyed houses, terrorised children and dead bodies, Kamal Aljafari adds humanity to the reels by overlaying poems by Palestinian authors" - Guardian

"meditates with a unique space-time depth of field on the fate of images produced by a people doubly dispossessed, both of its land, and of its history" - Visions du Reel

"A gesture of anger and struggle in action and a restitution of a distorted or erased memory, A Fidai Film lays claim to a form of cinematographic sabotage, a resistance-fighter film as the title unequivocally indicates" - FID Marseille

"authentic cinematic sabotage...the alteration of new sounds, the inclusion of red silhouettes of children, elements of fire, going to the limit of reintroducing scratches and defects in the film, in a clear inversion of restoration, as a way of rescuing sabotaged memory" - Fipresci, Yerevan Film Fest Golden Apricot