Partition

Lebanon, Palestine, Canada | 2025 | 61 min | Documentary “Partition” fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recorded of Palestinian refugees 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; “Partition” 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. A film by Diana Allan Diana Allan is a filmmaker and professor of anthropology at McGill University. She is the co-director of the Nakba Archive and holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives. Her publications include “Voices of the Nakba: A living history of Palestine” (2021) and “Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile” (2014).