Doc-Feature Film: Notes on Displacement
Directed by Khaled Jarrar
2022 | 74 min | Arabic, English and German | English subtitles
Palestinian-German-Qatari production
The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really know about what refugees are going through? Notes on Displacement takes a deep dive by following a single family on a grueling journey, destination Germany. Their fear, disorientation, and solidarity is palpable.
Nadira, an elderly Palestinian, has been a refugee since the age of 12. And now she has to leave Damascus, too. She and her daughter Mona feared for their lives there, but the idea of a safe existence elsewhere is a distant dream. Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar receives unsettling videos and voice messages as they cross to the Greek island of Lesbos. He joins them there, on the long road to a better life.
Khaled Jarrar was born in Jenin, Occupied Palestine in 1976. He lives and works in New York City. Jarrar completed his studies in interior design at Palestine Polytechnic University in 1996. Upon graduating he smuggled himself to work as a carpenter in Nazareth, living as an underground “illegal” worker. In 1998 Jarrar enlisted in an intensive military training which resulted in working for Arafat as a personal body guard until Arafat’s death in 2004. Attempting to create a life between the military and an artistic practice, Jarrar entered the field of photography in 2005. Jarrar graduated from the International Academy of Art – Palestine, Ramallah in 2011 and completed an MFA in fine art from the University of Arizona in 2019.
Jarrar, a multidisciplinary artist, explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens through highly symbolic photographs, videos, film, and performative interventions.
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The Palestinale (Palestinian Film Days Munich) is an initiative of activists and filmmakers from and in solidarity with Palestine.Our project was created to bring attention to the struggle of the Palestinian people, a struggle that has been ongoing for 77 years.We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination, liberation, and the full realization of human rights. Through cinema, we aim to create a necessary space for Palestinian voices to be heard in the cinemas of Munich.Our objective is to showcase films that narrate and document resistance, identity, and hope, while also confronting the realities of displacement, occupation and genocide experienced by the Palestinian people.
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