Film of the Week

A film every Wednesday at 5pm Jerusalem Time

To My Father (2008)

Documentary, 53m

“Those were days when people prettier, when eyes were filled with colour, even in black and white. What has changed - the camera, or the eye?" asks Abdel Salam Shehadah's poetic homage to the studio photographers of the 1950's - 70's. Set partly in a refugee camp in Rafah, the film looks back at fifty years of Palestinian and Arab history, told through the photographs, reportage and the voices of these photographers today.

Director: Abdel Salam Shehada

Producer: Qassim Ali

Cinematographer: Abdel Salam Shehada

Editor: Abdelrahman Hussien