• An Unusual Summer

    An Unusual Summer



  • An Unusual Summer

    An Unusual Summer



  • An Unusual Summer

    An Unusual Summer



  • An Unusual Summer

    An Unusual Summer



  • An Unusual Summer

    An Unusual Summer



  • An Unusual Summer

    An Unusual Summer



An Unusual Summer

by Kamal Aljafari

An Unusual Summer

Germany | 2020 | 80:00 min

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Documentary
Synopsis
Following an act of vandalism, the Palestinian filmmaker's father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of the house. Everyday family life, or neighbours going to work, Unusual Summer captures fleeting moments of poetry whereas, in the background, the daily choreography of Ramla, located in today's Israël, comes to the surface.

Following an act of vandalism, the filmmaker’s father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of the house. Everyday family life, the neighbours going to work, and the children at school, An Unusual Summer captures fleeting moments of poetry whereas, in the background, the daily choreography of the Arab district—that no one some name the “ghetto”—of Ramla, in current Israeli territory, comes to the surface. Composing with this visual material of low-definition aesthetics, finely punctuated with sound effects, Kamal Aljafari creates a mechanical diary of a life that scrolls past the window and succeeds with patience and infinite grace in transfiguring a ‘film à dispositif’ based on a security device into a personal and eminently political fresco. “In the distant past, many years ago, in front of this house, there stood a fig tree in a garden, which has now vanished, bulldozed into memory, and swept up by History and Time.” (Visions du Réel, Emilie Bujès)
Festivals/Awards
2020
Visions du Réel, Nyon
Cast and Crew
  • Director Kamal Aljafari
  • Producer Kamal Aljafari
Original Languages

Arabic

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