焦點專題｜巴勒斯坦（無）檔案

若電影是一個國家的相簿，巴勒斯坦的這本相簿已遭掠奪而散失。人們沿著歷史斷點追索影像與聲音，尋獲的檔案不只是歷史證據，也是再度被喚醒的感官場域：消逝之物得以再次震動，鑿刻入身體的每一寸肌理。翻攝、塗抹、重組、干預、再剪接，檔案影像的再創作成為一種行動，為殖民敘事的縫隙撐開另一種現實，召喚散落各地的記憶與情感。

讓電影作為一座持續生長、遍地綻放的「活檔案庫」吧！新的相簿扉頁，承載著記憶的重量，也對不斷發生的現實做出堅定回應。

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【2026 TIDF】焦點專題｜巴勒斯坦（無）檔案 Focus Programme｜Palestine and Its Archiveless Archive

A Fidai Film

In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut, raiding the Palestinian Research Centre and looting its entire archive. Containing historical documents and still and moving images of Palestine, the archive becomes the premise for A Fidai Film, which explores the visual memory of this looting through images now held in Israeli archives.

Paradiso, XXXI, 108

Nothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the world’s biggest display of soundproof fireworks, and soon we will drop our bombs.’ This film transforms Israeli military propaganda reels of the 1960s–70s into an absurd spectacle, exposing the violence projected onto an imagined Palestinian battlefield.

Dancing Palestine

To dance is to remember and insist on existence. As Palestinian identity faces erasure, dabke becomes an homage to history and culture. The film documents choreography as collective memory, where assembling steps mirrors assembling identity. Film and dance together affirm a love of life, contributing to an archive that keeps Palestine present and alive.

A Night We Held Between

A Night We Held Between unfolds from ‘Song for the Fighters’, drawn from the sonic archive of the Popular Art Centre. Shot in labyrinthine caves and underground passages in Palestine, the film weaves moving bodies, rituals and ancient sites through layers of the song, conjuring history as a permanent present tense, a collective and imaginative act.

A Magical Substance Flows into Me

The film traces ethnomusicologist Robert Lachmann’s legacy in 1930s Palestine as the filmmaker visits diverse communities across historical Palestine today. Through conversations on music, memory and endangered traditions, interwoven with intimate family scenes, it excavates contested histories, language, desire, listening, and the politics of impossibility shaping the Palestinian landscape.

The Diary of a Sky

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and generator hums during blackouts. It plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponisation of air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes disturbingly banal.

A Stone's Throw

Amine, a Palestinian elder, was exiled from land and labour, moving from Haifa to Beirut and finally to an offshore oil platform in the Gulf. Trespassing geographic and historical borders, the film reveals an emotional and material proximity between regional oil extraction, migrant labour and the Zionist colonisation of Palestine.

Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old and So Was the Nakba

The film imagines a century after the Nakba, as a deceased grandmother navigates her hometown Haifa through Google Street View — the only remaining way to see Palestine. Her disembodied voice wanders digital streets, searching for a son born in 1948, and for a geography erased from history yet preserved through spectral imagination.

Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image

The films of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Media Unit disappeared during Israel’s 1982 invasion of Beirut. Following elusive and contradictory clues, a filmmaker searches for the missing archive, encountering myths and lived stories. With humour, she engages a tragedy she identifies with, questioning its claims while tracing how absence and exile shape memory and who is seen in history.

R21 aka Restoring Solidarity

R21 aka Restoring Solidarity reflects on twenty Palestinian 16mm films safeguarded in Japan through solidarity movements of the 1960s–80s. Framed by an undelivered letter from a Japanese activist to a Palestinian filmmaker, the film functions as a catalogue, archive and time machine, restoring memories of global solidarity, shared aspirations, struggle and a disappearing generation.

Focus Programme｜Palestine and Its Archiveless Archive

If cinema were a nation’s album of memory, the album called Palestine has been plundered and scattered. Tracing images and sounds across historical ruptures, what is recovered is no longer mere evidence of the past, but a reawakened sensory field: what has vanished begins to tremble again, inscribed into the fibres of the body. Through re-filming, erasure, reassembly, intervention and re-editing, the reworking of archival images becomes an act — prising open fissures in colonial narratives to hold space for other realities, recalling memories and emotions dispersed across geographies.

Let cinema become a living archive, ever growing and in bloom. Each new album page bears the weight of memory while responding with resolve to a reality still unfolding.