{"id":655,"date":"2025-08-15T00:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/?page_id=655"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:49:58","slug":"a-fidai-film","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/en\/programm\/a-fidai-film\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fidai Film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Images under Siege: \nPalestinian memory against occupation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Palestine, 2024, 77 min, Kamal Aljafari, Arabic, NRW Premiere<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>

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Control Anatomy
<\/b>2025, Palestine, 17 min., Mahmoud Alhaj, Arabic<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

The word Fidai means freedom fighter or guerrilla. In this sense, the film itself becomes a guerrilla, resisting dominant cinematic forms and institutional narratives. During the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Palestine Research Center in Beirut was attacked. Its archives were looted and destroyed, erasing not just documents and footage, but a cultural memory.<\/span><\/p>

Kamal Aljafari\u2019s <\/span>A Fidai Film<\/span><\/strong> emerges from this absence. Using fragments of stolen, scattered images, it builds a counter-archive,defying colonial erasure through the quiet force of imagery. Without slogans or speeches, the film reclaims memory through form; each frame becomes an act of resistance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

Mahmoud Alhaj\u2019s <\/span>Control Anatomy<\/span><\/strong> complements this with a stark meditation on surveillance. Told in chapters with narration, it explores how technology maps, monitors, and disciplines the Palestinian body. Silence becomes its own language, echoing the muted existence under occupation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

Together, these films speak to the violence of forgetting. They don\u2019t offer closure but create space for mourning, remembering, and resisting. Here, cinema is not just a medium of expression; it is defiance made visible. From fragments and ruins, a fugitive archive rises – asserting presence where erasure was intended.<\/span><\/p>

Das Wort Fidai bedeutet Freiheitsk\u00e4mpfer oder Guerillak\u00e4mpfer. In diesem Sinn wird der Film selbst zur Guerilla \u2013 ein Widerstand gegen dominante filmische Formen und institutionalisierte Narrative. W\u00e4hrend der israelischen Invasion im Libanon 1982 wurde das Pal\u00e4stina-Forschungszentrum in Beirut angegriffen. Die Archive wurden gepl\u00fcndert und zerst\u00f6rt \u2013 ein kulturelles Ged\u00e4chtnis ausgel\u00f6scht. Kamal Aljafaris\u00a0A Fidai Film<\/strong>\u00a0entsteht aus dieser Leere. Aus gestohlenen, verstreuten Bildern formt er ein Gegenarchiv, das der kolonialen Ausl\u00f6schung trotzt. Ohne Parolen oder Reden wird Erinnerung durch Form zur\u00fcckgewonnen \u2013 jedes Bild ein stiller Akt des Widerstands.<\/span><\/p>

Mahmoud Alhajs\u00a0Control Anatomy<\/strong>\u00a0erg\u00e4nzt dies mit einer eindringlichen Reflexion \u00fcber \u00dcberwachung. In stummen Kapiteln erz\u00e4hlt, zeigt der Film, wie Technologie zur Waffe wird \u2013 pal\u00e4stinensische K\u00f6rper kartiert, \u00fcberwacht und diszipliniert. Die Stille spricht f\u00fcr das erzwungene Schweigen unter Besatzung.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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