• Paradiso, XXXI, 108

    Paradiso, XXXI, 108



  • Paradiso, XXXI, 108

    Paradiso, XXXI, 108



  • Paradiso, XXXI, 108

    Paradiso, XXXI, 108



  • Paradiso, XXXI, 108

    Paradiso, XXXI, 108



Paradiso, XXXI, 108

by Kamal Aljafari

Paradiso, XXXI, 108

Germany | 2022 | 18:40 min

Formal Categories

Current Affairs War / Peace Politics

Content Categories

Documentary Experimental Short film
Synopsis
"Without commentary, the clips from Israeli military propaganda films form a colorful kaleidoscope that the filmmaker composes into a precisely choreographed ballet with elegiac, melodic music. Through the carefully selected shots - the image often pulled in or cropped - the original intention of the material recedes into the background, taking on a new meaning instead. Kamal Aljafari has not only given his experimental film the sonorous, half-poetic, half-scientific sounding title "Paradiso XXI, 108," for which he was inspired by a short story by Borges, he also alienates the images by coloring them in pastel. Nevertheless, they have lost nothing of their disturbing effect." [Jury Deutsche Filmkritik – German Film Critic Award 2022]
Festivals/Awards
Best Experimental Film – German Film Critic Award 2022

2022
Locarno Film Festival 
Vienna International Film Festival Viennale 
International Film Festival Rotterdam 
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 
Camden International Film Festival 
Filmmaker Festival Milan 
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 
Independent Film Festival of Athens
FILMFEST DRESDEN

2023
52 IFFR Rotterdam
Cast and Crew
  • Director Kamal Aljafari
  • Producer Kamal Aljafari
  • Sound Design Attila Faravelli
Original Languages

Hebrew

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