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Partition
2025
|Documentary
|61'
by Diana Allan ديانا الين
[Palestine, Lebanon, Canada]
Part of Archives of Belonging.
Greek and English subtitles
Synopsis
Partition fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio of Palestinian refugees recorded in Lebanon, tracing lines of continuity left by seismic displacement. Silent films gathered in imperial collections hold histories that have barely been told, and ways of colonial seeing that seep into the present. In this lyrical documentary, Diana Allen uses dialectical montage and asynchronous sound to examine both. Recovering Palestinian presence through story, voice and song, unraveling colonial pasts through soundscapes of the precarious present, Partition is a meditation on what bodies remember and empires forget.
Official Poster
Biography
Diana Allan ديانا الين is a filmmaker, anthropologist and archivist, professor of anthropology at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives. She founded the Nakba Archive, a grassroots video oral history project that has recorded over 500 testimonies with first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Her book Refugees of the Revolution won the 2014 Palestine Book Award.
Director's photo