In 2006, Kamal Aljafari’s father installed a camera facing the street in order to catch the rascal who kept damaging his car. In this attempt, he films the whole neighbourhood, the comings and goings of the neighbours, the mundane dynamics of society. After his father’s death, the director constructs a narrative through these captured images, illustrating, narrating and contextualising life in Ramla, a Palestinian district in Israel nicknamed the “ghetto”.
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