This deceptively quiet film presents a picture of the Al-Jaafari family in Ramla and Jaffa, and hovers between documentary memory and cinematic memory, and is directed by a graceful camera that moves at an unrelenting pace between the rooms of haunted houses that have been devastated and ravaged by destruction.
The film's title refers to the non-existent roof of the house in which the Al-Jaafari family settled in the year 1948, a house that had not yet been prepared and was a construction project that was not destined to be completed. The use of stillness and space outside the screen creates a sense of interruption, of time spent waiting, of the impact of accidents, and of the lives that people lived in other places. Al-Jaafari’s amazing use of his “template”, which is his family, reveals the impact that Bresson leaves by employing non-professional actors as models whose performance stems from their presence, not from their acting.

Directed by Kamal Aljafari

Languages; Arabic, English, Hebrew

Countries: Palestine, Germany

Producer:Kamal Aljafari