An Unusual Summer

Germany, Palestine | 2020 | 1h20 | Documentary Following an act of vandalism, the filmmaker’s father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of the house. Everyday family life, the neighbours going to work, and the children at school, An Unusual Summer captures fleeting moments of poetry whereas, in the background, the daily choreography of the Arab district—that no one some name the “ghetto”—of Ramla, in current Israeli territory, comes to the surface. A film by Kamal Aljafari Kamal Aljafari is an acclaimed Palestinian filmmaker, born in a neighboring village of Ramla in 1972. He spent part of his adolescence in Jaffa, then he emigrated to Germany to study cinema. Interweaving between fiction, non-fiction, and art, his work has been shown at film festivals worldwide.