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The Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut welcomed the Palestinian director Michel Khleifi, in a dialogue meeting, moderated by the Lebanese director and critic Hadi Zakak and the Lebanese critic Rabih Al-Shami.
The meeting, which was organized by the Foundation in cooperation with “A Club for All People”, was opened by its director in Beirut, Rami Al-Rayyes, who welcomed the Palestinian director residing in Belgium, and the attendees.
During his answers to the questions directed to him by the interlocutors and the audience, Khulaifi said, “Cinema is a mixture of reality and imagination, so this imagination does not die with the existence of the occupation.” more”.
As for Zakak, he explained the nature of Khulaifi’s cinema, saying that it constituted “a focal point, after the Palestinian cinema that we knew through the struggle cinema produced by the Palestinian Film Foundation and the Palestine Film Unit.”
While Al-Shami said that “there is no liberation without imagination or liberation,” recalling Khulaifi’s sayings in his narratives and films. Al-Shami continued his dialogue with the Palestinian director with questions retrieved from his films, such as the question “What is struggle?” Which he directed in the movie “The Fertile Memory” (1980) by the Palestinian writer Sahar Khalifeh.
