This screening is part of: ARCHIVES OF POWER: THE PALESTINIAN FILM ARCHIVE AND THE ERASURE OF HISTORY
(BAWABAT AL-FAWQA)
Produced by the PLO. Restored in 2019 by The Void Project & London Palestine Film Festival.
“When I returned to Sidon in 1983, it had just been occupied. My sister destroyed several documents in a panic because the Zionist soldiers were coming, and I lost many of my mementoes. Friends were killed, and places I had loved were destroyed. I wanted to capture memories that could not be destroyed. The city had survived, and many people I knew were still living there and taking stock of their losses. Actually, everyone in the documentary was someone I loved, and so the film was in many ways an extended form of my memory.” –Arab Loutfi