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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its dense assembly of archival images examines the Palestinian revolutionary imagination and its afterlives, making it a strong companion to Genet à Chatila’s reflections on struggle, defeat and representation.
02
Why this pick
A personal visual diary of life under occupation, told through damaged cameras and family life; it shares the original film’s proximity to Palestinian experience and its sense of testimony becoming art.
03
Why this pick
Suleiman’s spare, deadpan vignettes turn absence, exile and Palestinian everyday life into a quietly radical cinematic language, offering a more oblique but resonant counterpart to Dindo’s meditation.
04
Why this pick
A formally searching collage of images exchanged across distance and danger, it treats witness, art and devastated place with the same grave, self-questioning intensity.
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01 / THE STORY
A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Genet visits the camp. Suffering from throat cancer and having written nothing in years, Genet begins to write on the threshold of his death about this disturbing new experience. It leads to his last book, entitled “Un captif amoureux” in which Genet reflects on the Palestinian revolution, its defeat, and the loss of one’s homeland. In this film a young French woman of Algerian origin who is reading the book returns to the landscapes of the Palestinian resistance and the refugee camps full of exiles, in search of Genet.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mounia
Leila Shahid
Récitant / Narrator