Camcorder Guerrillas & Document Worldscreen: Palestine Encounter with a Lost Land

Encounter with a Lost Land

Through an artful montage of personal and consular correspondence, diplomatic and audiovisual archives, newspaper articles, and interviews with the children of Western diplomats who lived in Jaffa, Palestine, during the mid-20th century, filmmaker Maryse Gargour takes us on an encounter with a lost land– Palestine from 1928 up to 1952 and beyond. The first-hand testimonies of life before, during, and after the 1948 Nakba powerfully recreate everyday life in Jaffa’s urban center during a fateful time in Palestinian history. A tour de force.

Dir. Maryse Gargour, France, 2013, 62m.