01 MAY — 11 MAY 2025

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2025

It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus + An Unusual Summer

May 24, Friday, 19:00 (96')

Cinemateca Portuguesa, Room Félix Ribeiro • C.381

SCREENING WITH Q&A

It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus

Moments that should be more human are pierced by time-consuming and dehumanising bureaucracy, turning people into numbers and their life stories into mere statistics. In the waiting rooms of Berlin’s immigration institutions, everything is reduced to something sterile and lacking in empathy. 
Kamal Aljafari
Germany

2019, 16'

An Unusual Summer

In 2006, Kamal Aljafari’s father installed a camera facing the street in order to catch the rascal who kept damaging his car. In this attempt, he films the whole neighbourhood, the comings and goings of the neighbours, the mundane dynamics of society. After his father’s death, the director constructs a narrative through these captured images, illustrating, narrating and contextualising life in Ramla, a Palestinian district in Israel nicknamed the “ghetto”. 
Kamal Aljafari
Palestine / Germany

2020, 80'

Retrospective Kamal Aljafari

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