Recollection

Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari returns to Jaffa, the city of his birth, to reckon with the imposition of Israeli and American fiction films shot in Palestine going back as far as 1960. The protagonists are edited out of the original footage, and in the images of extras and passersby, Aljafari looks for the history of a place from which he came. Coming from the sea, as if in a dream, he wanders through the city and reconstructs his memories of a place that no longer exists, using the rare archived footage to subtly depict every house, road, and square.