Off Frame aka Revolution until Victory
Off-Rahmen aka Revolution bis zum Sieg
Off Frame aka Revolution until Victory | Off-Rahmen aka Revolution bis zum Sieg by Mohanad Yaqubi
PSE/FRA/QAT 2016, Forum Expanded
© Mohanad Yaqubi
Off Frame aka Revolution Until Victory traces the fragments of a revolution, combining images from a dream for freedom, using films from the Palestinian struggle cinema, a term used for films produced in relation to the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982. For the outside world, these films represented a model of a people engaged in political struggle, explaining why they are fighting and against whom. But for Palestinians these films marked the transformation of their identity: from refugee to freedom fighter.
The Palestinian revolution collaborated with filmmakers, actors, and activists from Syria, Italy, UK, Lebanon, France, Germany, Argentina, and many others, and made partnerships with institutions in Berlin, Moscow, Baghdad, and Cuba. Despite their prolific output, very few of their works remain. The film brings together moments from a selection of these militant films into one timeline. The only coherent relation between all the shots, clips, and sequences is that they all straddle the borders between fiction and propaganda, dream and reality, in order to represent a narrative of a people in struggle.
With
- Mustafa Abu Ali
- Sulafa Jadallah
- Hani Jawaharieh
- Yaser Arafat
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Salah Ta'amari
Crew
| Director | Mohanad Yaqubi |
| Screenplay | Reem Shilleh |
| Cinematography | Sara Sea |
| Editing | David Osit |
| Sound Design | Carl Svensson |
| Assistant Director | Ramzi Hazboun |
| Production Manager | Sami Said |
| Producers | Sami Said, Mohanad Yaqubi, Delphine Landes |
World Sales
Produced by
Monkey Bay Productions
Additional information
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Mohanad Yaqubi
The section head and the director during Q&A.
Off Frame aka Revolution until Victory · Forum Expanded · Feb 13, 2017
Mohanad Yaqubi
Mohanad Yaqubi, born in 1981 in Kuwait, is a filmmaker and producer and teaches Film Studies at the International Art Academy in Palestine. He is one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production outfit Idioms Film and the research and curatorial collective Subversive Film, which focuses on militant film practices. He has directed and produced several short films, both fiction and documentary, which have been shown in international festivals.
Filmography
2004 Fix; 9 min. · Carnaval; 26 min. 2005 Insomnia; 10 min. 2006 June, 2006; 28 min. 2007 Around; 3 min. · Rico in the Night; 8 min. 2008 Rollescape; 9 min. 2010 EXIT; 10 min. 2013 Al-Jisser; 24 min. 2014 No Exit; 11 min. 2016 On that Day; 4 min. · Off Frame aka Revolution until Victory
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017