Kamal Aljafari information

Kamal Aljafari - also written Kamal Jafari (Arabic: كمال جعفري، كمال الجعفري ) is a Palestinian artist, film director and producer.

His work has been shown at film festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, Viennale and Rotterdam. and museums such as the MoMA and Tate Modern.^[1][2] He attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and now lives in Berlin, Germany.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004 he received the Friedrich Vordemberge Stipendium of the city of Cologne, 2005 Stipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds, 2005-2006 Imhoff-Stiftung Studio Stipendium at the Kölnischer Kunstverein.^{[citation needed]} In 2009, he was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film seminar in New York.^{[citation needed]}

Through 2009-2010 he was the Benjamin White Whitney fellow at Harvard University.^[3]

He taught filmmaking at The New School in New York. 2011–2013, Kamal Aljafari was a senior lecturer at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.^[4] He was also a Film Study Center-Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.^[5]

In 2021 he was jury member for Leopard of tomorrow section of 74th Locarno Film Festival, and jury member for Burning Lights Competition of Visions du Réel, Nyon.^[6] In 2021 Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival in Brazil devoted its Focus Section on the work of Kamal Aljafari.^[7] His latest film Paradiso, XXXI, 108 was premiered in 2022 at the 75 Locarno Film Festival.^[8]

A Fidai Film, was selected to Final Cut in Venice, working in progress competition, at Venice Film Festival 2022.^{[citation needed]}