Gimme Some Truth: Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo
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Dir. Kamal Aljafari
2026, Germany, France, Japan, 28 min
Japanese and Arabic with English subtitles
In a quiet studio in Tokyo, an iconic filmmaker poses for a passport photo that may take him nowhere, whilst the widow who runs the studio meticulously prepares the shot, tracing the fragile persistence of memory and time.
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Going Home
Dir. Kamal Aljafari
2026, Germany, France, Palestine, 20 min
Arabic with English subtitles
It was late December, and the weather was stormy. I went back to my parents’ home after 3 years of absence. I’m told: some of our relatives in Gaza were killed, the last one was a 12 years old girl. Every morning my mother asks: How did they sleep tonight under the heavy rain. My mother tells me not to film the TV and to erase what I filmed. “The picture says what the story cannot”?
2026, Germany, France, Japan, 28 min
Japanese and Arabic with English subtitles
In a quiet studio in Tokyo, an iconic filmmaker poses for a passport photo that may take him nowhere, whilst the widow who runs the studio meticulously prepares the shot, tracing the fragile persistence of memory and time.
Plays with
Going Home
Dir. Kamal Aljafari
2026, Germany, France, Palestine, 20 min
Arabic with English subtitles
It was late December, and the weather was stormy. I went back to my parents’ home after 3 years of absence. I’m told: some of our relatives in Gaza were killed, the last one was a 12 years old girl. Every morning my mother asks: How did they sleep tonight under the heavy rain. My mother tells me not to film the TV and to erase what I filmed. “The picture says what the story cannot”?
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