NOTES ON DISPLACEMENT
Khaled Jarrar | Palestine, Germany, Qatar 2022 | 75 Min. | Arabic, English with Engl. subtitles
SUNDAY, 07.05. | 5pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
Austrian Premiere
Nadira and her daughter Mona have made it from Damascus to Lesbos. After their arrival, they send worrying videos and voice messages to filmmaker Khaled Jarrar. He decides to meet them and join them on their upcoming journey to Western Europe. On the ferry towards the mainland, a tour de force begins along the so-called Balkan route all the way to Germany.
In NOTES ON DISPLACEMENT, Jarrar uses his camera to share the perspective of a refugee that he experiences first-hand, from the midst of the events. In stirring subjectivity, he conveys the meaning of flight for body and soul. The physical exertions and psychological stress become just as tangible as the solidarity among the refugees.
Director: Khaled Jarrar
Camera: Khaled Jarrar
Editing: Gladys Joujou
Sound: Rob Walker, Thomas Kaske
Music: Music Du Yun
Production: Khaled Jarrar / Jenin Films & Thomas Kaske / Kaske Film
presented by
SCREENINGS
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2022, Envision Competition | World Premiere
BIOGRAPHY
Khaled Jarrar, a multidisciplinary artist, explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens through highly symbolic photographs, videos, film, and performative interventions. His State of Palestine project was featured in the 7th Berlin Biennale. Where We Lost Our Shadows, his filmic collaboration with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Du Yun, was shown at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Jarrar’s work has been featured at Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah; the New Museum, New York City; the University of Applied Arts, Vienna; the 15th Jakarta Biennale; 52nd October Salon, Belgrade; Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem; and the London Film Festival. Infiltrators, Jarrar’s first feature length film, was a documentary about the business of Palestinian’s “illegally” crossing and won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Documentary, Jury Special Award, and the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012. Notes on Displacement, his second feature length, about a Palestinian refugee’s flight from Syria to Germany, will receive a world premiere at the IDFA Envision Competition in November 2022.
