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Cinema, Mon Amour
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A Projectionist Barricades himself inside the last remaining art house cinema in Bethlehem before it gets demolished
- Director
- Ibrahim Handal & Wisam Aljafari
- Time
- 0:15:00
- Country
- Palestine
- Genre
- Drama
- Year
- 2025
- Cast
- Salim Daw, Ziad Bakri
Director
Ibrahim Handal & Wisam Aljafari
Wisam Al Jafari is Palestinian film maker from Bethlehem In 2019 he obtained his BFA in filmmaking at Dar al-Kalima University. Wisam directed several narrative and experimental short films his Previous short film “AMBIENCE “ which won the 3rd Prize at cinefondation - Cannes film festival 2019 . He worked as an assistant director, location manager, camera assistant and sound engineer in many short and feature films .Wisam is in development of his first feature film.
Ibrahim Handal is a Palestinian Cinematographer and Filmmaker whom graduated in Cinematography in 2019 from Dar Al-Kalima University. He worked as a Cinematographer on several short films: A short film about a Chair (2024 Officially selected in SlamDance) A short film about Kids ( 2023 Officially selected in Clermont Ferrand,Tampere,Atlanta,POFF shorts…) Bethlehem 2001 (2020, Officially selected in Locarno, Clermont Ferrand, Busan…) AMBIENCE by Wissam Al Jafari (2019, Cannes Cin?fondation winner), Blood Like Water by Dima Hamdan(2023). He also worked on several feature film productions in Palestine in the camera and lighting
Cast
Salim Daw, Ziad Bakri
Screening
Screening Venue
| Venue | Schedule | Ticket Reservation |
|---|---|---|
| WITH HARAJUKU HALL | 2026.06.09 [Tue] 10:50-12:40 |
Online Screening
| Online | schedule | Online Screening |
|---|---|---|
| Online Screening | 2026.06.11 [Thu] - 2026.06.30 [Tue] |
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Cinema, in our memory, is deeply connected to the stories of our parents—stories filled with the spirit of the 1970s and 1980s, a time marked by uprising, curfews, and restrictions on movement. Despite all of this, cinema remained a space where imagination knew no limits—a world capable of transcending reality and crossing its boundaries. In this film, we tried to rediscover those worlds and build a personal relationship with this place, until we could almost hear the echoes of the films once shown there, and the laughter of audiences still lingering in its space. When we opened the cinema doors after forty years of closure, others might have seen nothing more than an abandoned building. But for us, it was still alive—holding on to its spirit, pulsing with everything it had carried from the past.