The Shadow of Absence

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 84 min
  • Premiere: 2007. June 15.

"Born in Palestine. Died in Lebanon." "Born in Palestine. Died in Syria." "Born in Palestine. Died in Jordan." The camera pans across an endless row of white tombstones. The Shadow of Absence takes death as its subject yet in doing so presents a powerful statement about Palestinian life. Weaving elements of his own story of dislocation into the Palestinian collective narrative, filmmaker Nasri Hajjaj reverses the usual focus of the Nakba documentary by exploring the denial of the Palestinian right to death and burial in the homeland.

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Camera

Khaled Belkhiria

Director of Photography

Ali Bin Abdallah

Director of Photography

Directing

Nasri Hajjaj

Director

Editing

Writing