This screening is part of: POLITICS OF THE IMAGE: COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND THE TWO GERMANIES

Kassem Hawal
RETURN TO HAIFA / A’ID ILA HAYFA
1982, 75 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In Arabic with English subtitles.
“The first feature-length Palestinian fictional film, RETURN TO HAIFA adapts Ghassan Kanafani’s 1969 novella by the same name. Filmed in Lebanon during its crushing civil war, the film team relied on the communities of Palestinian life-in-exile and the infrastructures of the Palestinian resistance for its production; per Hawal’s screen notes, resistance fighters went door-to-door in Badawi and Nahr al-Bared refugee camps to furnish the actors for the scenes of mass exodus filmed in Tripoli. What results is a national initiative, at once polemical and cautious, of exodus and its attendant psychologies.” –Kaleem Hawa

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!