Partition

From 1917 to 1948, Palestine was under British occupation. During this time, numerous films were shot with the intent to document the Empire’s colonial operations. Diana Allan rephotographs and merges them with resistance songs and voices of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, a process that challenges the colonial authority previously afforded only to the archives. Uninterested in forming a linear narrative, Partition attempts to retrace over a century of occupation and displacement through echoes, multiple perspectives, and oral histories. Partition is an invitation to rewrite Palestinian history through a decolonial lens, reflecting on the logic of the colonial gaze and the image’s complicity in its development. (MF)

Co-presented with the Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ)

Canadian Premiere

competition : National Feature Competition

Partition