The title, flashed on screen in multiple fonts and languages, prompts us to look up the reference: Dante wonders about the imprint of Christ on the Veil of Veronica – “was your semblance made like unto this?”. In this way, Kamal Aljafari declares the underlying theme of his disquieting, found-footage collage: do the heroic, suspenseful representations of armed warfare on screen, whether in documentary or fiction, bear any resemblance to the devastating, tragic, barbaric reality?
– Adrian Martin
Featured in these combined programmes
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Private Recollection
Mining archives revives the past and sheds light on the present. Can they inform our future?
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Short & Mid-length
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Short Film Marathon 2023
IFFR challenges you to a succession of short films, screened traditionally on the last Saturday of the festival.
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Short & Mid-length
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Palestine
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 19"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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