Kamal Aljafari Double-Bill and Screen Talk with Omar Kholeif

The first of three pre-festival events, the Palestine Film Festival presents a double bill of Kamal Aljafari's companion pieces. Kamal Aljafari first drew attention with The Roof (2006), an intimate elegy to the eroding spaces of Palestinian life in Israel. But it was his astonishing second film on home city Jaffa, Port of Memory (2009), that confirmed him as the most exciting Palestinian filmmaker of his time. Seamlessly woven of vérité, script, and appropriated material, Aljafari's is iconoclastic cinema that defies genres, prompting Sight & Sound to declare it:
"....work that can only be seen, not talked about... all that can be said is that it brings cinema to a place beyond the question of fiction, documentary and video art."
The screen talk will occur between the two films, each of which is an hour in length.