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#NowStreaming 🇵🇸 UNDR by Kamal Aljafari.
“This essay film employs a range of archival perspectives to look at Palestinian land and its peoples through history. As helicopter footage reveals an austere gaze on natural land and people engaged in their daily occupations, one is reminded of the unrelenting state of aerial surveillance that Palestinians continue to live under. As children play hide-and-seek, the footage records the erosion of the land caused by frequent detonations. The film is as much a sombre meditation as a witness to the irreversible changes brought on by imperial acts of control.”
— Najrin Islam & Cindy Chehab
This short film is part of “Mapping Absentia”, curated by Najrin Islam and Cindy Chehab, included in “Siesmic Shifts” — a cohort of three programs developed within the European Workshop for New Curators #2. This collection was curated by the participants Alexandra Sirotenko, Cindy Chehab, Mai Nguyen, Najrin Islam, Raouf Moussa, and Tania Hernández González, under the mentorshop of Daniella Shreir, during the 2025 editions of Lago Film Fest and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF).
The European Workshop for New Curators #2 is a project by the European Network for Film Discourse (The END) and Talking Shorts, funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme.
Now streaming at thisisshort.com.
“This essay film employs a range of archival perspectives to look at Palestinian land and its peoples through history. As helicopter footage reveals an austere gaze on natural land and people engaged in their daily occupations, one is reminded of the unrelenting state of aerial surveillance that Palestinians continue to live under. As children play hide-and-seek, the footage records the erosion of the land caused by frequent detonations. The film is as much a sombre meditation as a witness to the irreversible changes brought on by imperial acts of control.”
— Najrin Islam & Cindy Chehab
This short film is part of “Mapping Absentia”, curated by Najrin Islam and Cindy Chehab, included in “Siesmic Shifts” — a cohort of three programs developed within the European Workshop for New Curators #2. This collection was curated by the participants Alexandra Sirotenko, Cindy Chehab, Mai Nguyen, Najrin Islam, Raouf Moussa, and Tania Hernández González, under the mentorshop of Daniella Shreir, during the 2025 editions of Lago Film Fest and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF).
The European Workshop for New Curators #2 is a project by the European Network for Film Discourse (The END) and Talking Shorts, funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme.
Now streaming at thisisshort.com.
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