Awards and Catalan Screenings of Infiltrators
Palestinian artist and documentary filmmaker Khaled Jarrar received the Jury Documentary Award at the Malmö Arab Film Festival that ended a couple of days ago.
More important, in terms of audience, is it maybe that the film has been chosen as ”documentary of the Month” of the unique distribution initiative in Catalunya, Chile and Colombia, organised by the Barcelona based company Parallel40, whose staff probably not will have time to read this as Catalans today, their National Day, are forming a human chain to mark the wish for a break with Spain to have their own independent state.
As is of course the constant message of Khaled Jarrar, a free Palestine, with his artistic work be it a film or art works or happenings.
Here is what I wrote here on filmkommentaren.dk in connection with the DocsBarcelona screening of the film in June:
”Palestinian Khaled Jarrar’s ”Infiltrators” – without the presence of the director here in Barcelona – a film that I have followed from the sidelines, in workshops in Greece and in Ramallah, I can only say that this film about apartheid in Israel again made me shake my head in anger and sorrow, this is the world of today, how can we allow that human beings are being treated like this having to climb a wall or going through a tunnel of dirt or caressing the hand of your mother through a hole in the so-called separation wall. It is a film which in content and intensity is painful to watch, simply!”
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