Scene from the film Port of Memory
Scene from the film Port of Memory
Scene from the film Port of Memory
Scene from the film Port of Memory
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Port of Memory

Direction
Year 
2009
Country
  • Palestine
  • Germany
  • France
Runtime
59min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

Walled-up houses, notice of expulsion, immobile consumers in a café, an eccentric individual driving round on his scooter shouting, a sick old woman and her daughter glued to a television set, stray cats, the anxiety of a couple tetanised by the sombre certainties of the future, and to finish, a cemetery overlooking the sea and night drawing in on the terraces. The picture that Kamal Aljafari paints for us of Jaffa the Palestinian is that of a shrinking skin slowly closing in on its resigned inhabitants, who are crushed by fate, whatever they say about it, as if the slow-motion repetition of everyday gestures were their only way of suspending the course of time, of delaying the inevitable.

Details

  • Original Title
    Port of Memory
  • Direction
  • Cinematography
    Jacke Besse
  • Editing
    Marie-Hélène Mora
  • Sound
    Gilles Laurent
  • Runtime
    59 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2009
  • Country
    • Palestine
    • Germany
    • France
  • Format
    • Colour
  • Festivals
    • Cinema du réel, Paris
    • Torino Film Festival, Italy
    • International Film Festival Rotterdam
    • San Fransisco Film Festival
    • San Sebastian International Film Festival
  • Awards
    • ︎︎︎Louis Marcorelles Award

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