Going Home
Kamal Aljafari
It was the end of December, and the storm was raging. After three years, I returned to my parents’ home. I learned that several of our relatives had died in Gaza, including a 12-year-old girl. Every morning, my mother asks: How did they survive the night in the pouring rain? She asks me not to film the television and to delete the footage.
Screening in the International Shorts II: Memory Under Fire section.
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Kamal Aljafari
Director
Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker and artist. He has taught at The New School in New York and the DFFB in Berlin, and was a fellow at the Harvard Film Study Center. He is currently a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Columbia University. His feature-length film A Fidai Film (2024) has screened at more than 100 festivals and received 15 international awards. His latest work, With Hassan in Gaza (2025), premiered in the International Competition at the Locarno Film Festival.
