In this conversation, Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Jabaly reflects on a documentary practice that has followed Gaza’s shifting realities through the immediacy of his own lived experience. It considers how this lens brings forward truths often overlooked by conventional accounts, and how such ways of seeing can, in turn, form the basis of an alternative archive.
The event will be held in Arabic. Seating is limited.
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Projects at the Lab: The Cinematheque | All That We Witness launches this December and continues into January with a series of encounters that look closely at contemporary directions in Arab documentary practice. The program turns to works that approach wider realities through the immediacy of lived experience; following how personal perspectives surface within, complicate, or cast new light on collective events. In doing so, it reopens the question of what the documentary form can offer today: how it examines the past, and how it engages the pressures and urgencies of the present moment.
The program brings together conversations, public discussions, and a workshop, alongside a film-screening series that opens this month with a film on the late Syrian director Omar Amiralay.