Ed Meza @edmezavarBerlin-based Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari revisits familiar themes in “An Unusual Summer,” a personal work that captures the invisible lives of people in a Palestinian neighborhood in the Israeli city of Ramla.Composed of recordings from a surveillance camera installed by Aljafari’s late father at their family home in 2006 in the hope of catching a vandal who kept damaging his car, “An Unusual Summer” is a video diary populated by local residents, shoppers, pedestrians and school kids.“In many ways it wasn’t really my choice to make this film,” Aljafari tells Variety. “I was kind of chosen.”The film, which screens in International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Harbour section, continues themes the director explored in.
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