Port of Memory

Palestinian writer and director Kamal Aljafari made this intellectual and poetic study about the conflict in his country that has affected everybody in some way or another. In the film a family's forced to leave their home in the coastal town of Jaffa if they can show the paperwork despite living there for more than four decades. Awaiting imminent eviction, each of them are helpless in a vacuum of time where they are present and absent at the same time. It's a rather subtle and inverted work without any emotions or action given the subject matter. The conflict gives the artists of both sides enough material to address and process the issues. YRCinema's coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival.