Kamal Aljafari
The work of Kamal Aljafari, Palestinian director and key figure in contemporary cinema, focuses on the reconstruction of personal and collective memory, particularly that of the Palestinian people.
Born in Ramla, he has developed a cinematic language that pushes the boundaries of documentary and essayistic cinema, transforming archival images into political and aesthetic tools. His films, screened at numerous film festivals and celebrated by critics, focus on themes such as dispossession, memory, exile, and the material and symbolic importance of the “archive”: it is in the counter-archive under construction — defined by the director as “the camera of the dispossessed” — that Aljafari allows the reiteration in the world of stories and presences that Zionist ideology systematically seeks to silence or erase — but which always resist.
At Batalha, we welcome the filmmaker for a masterclass and the screening of a comprehensive selection of his film work, including the Porto premiere of his new film, With Hasan in Gaza.
Curated by Rita Morais
With Hasan in Gaza, Kamal Aljafari, 2025
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The work of Kamal Aljafari, Palestinian director and key figure in contemporary cinema, focuses on the reconstruction of personal and collective memory, particularly that of the Palestinian people.
Born in Ramla, he has developed a cinematic language that pushes the boundaries of documentary and essayistic cinema, transforming archival images into political and aesthetic tools. His films, screened at numerous film festivals and celebrated by critics, focus on themes such as dispossession, memory, exile, and the material and symbolic importance of the “archive”: it is in the counter-archive under construction — defined by the director as “the camera of the dispossessed” — that Aljafari allows the reiteration in the world of stories and presences that Zionist ideology systematically seeks to silence or erase — but which always resist.
At Batalha, we welcome the filmmaker for a masterclass and the screening of a comprehensive selection of his film work, including the Porto premiere of his new film, With Hasan in Gaza.
Curated by Rita Morais
Rita Morais
Rita Morais is an artist-filmmaker and curator, with a master's degree in Artists' Film & Moving Image from Goldsmiths, University of London. In the context of film and moving image programming, she has collaborated with institutions and festivals such as Batalha Centro de Cinema, the Doc’s Kingdom seminar, the Digital Culture Centre in Mexico City and Curtas Vila do Conde. She is the artistic director of Miragem, a cinematic art exhibition on the island of Pico, and a member of the Laia cooperative and Laboratório da Torre in Porto. Her films have been screened nationally and internationally at venues and festivals such as Open City Docs; Artium Museoa — Basque Country Museum of Contemporary Art; Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival; Rockaway IFF; S8 — Mostra de Cinema Periférico; SIM Gallery; A.P.T. Gallery; among others. Her film Há ouro em todo o lado is part of the Municipal Art Collection of the city of Porto.
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