Archive: Year 2024

1. Occupation and Resistance

They Do Not Exist

Lays lahum wujud

Director

Mustafa Abu Ali

Producer

Palestinian Cinema Institution

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Trailer

1974

Lebanon, Palestine

25 min

Black & White

Life in the Nabatia refugee camp in southern Lebanon, accompanied in voice-over by a letter written to a fedayeen (Palestinian fighter). A response to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir who declared that the Palestinian people did not exist.

Director

Screenwriter and Producer Mustafa H. Abu Ali was born in 1940 in Jerusalem. He received his diploma in filmmaking from the London School of Film Technique (now called the London Film School) in 1967. He was an undergraduate student in the College of Architecture at Berkeley University between 1961 and 1964. He assisted Jean Luc Godard on his film From Here And There while shooting in Amman, Jordan, 1970.

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