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Al-Damun: The War of Memory

This film highlights the relationship between the absent and present Palestinian person and his memory, which preserves the history that the occupation wants to eradicate from existence. Memory becomes the most valuable thing that the people of the village of Damun possess. The people of the village of Damun do not want those memories to be erased. Conflicts against this memory continue until they turn into war. Damun was everything to its people, what it was once, what happened to it overnight, and how it sees its future. With memory, answers are formed.

  • Dareen Tawfiq Tatour
    Director
    Dareen Tatour
  • Dareen Tawfiq Tatour
    Writer
    Dareen Tatour
  • Dareen Tatour
    Producer
    Dareen tatour
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    الدامون، حرب الذاكرة
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 16 minutes 7 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    7,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Palestine, State of
  • Country of Filming:
    Palestine, State of
  • Language:
    Arabic
  • Shooting Format:
    Full HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:09
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Dareen Tawfiq Tatour

DAREEN TATOUR
Poet and Photographer, Filmmaker, Political Activist, Social Media Activist

Publications:
The Last Invasion, Nazareth: El Wattan Books, 2010
My Threatening Poem, Arabic, Tunis: Dyar Publishing and Distribution House, 2018.
Threatening Poem - Memoir of a Poet in Occupation Prisons, English Version. Scotland: Drunk Muse Press, 2020
I Sing From the Window of Exile - English and Arabic. Scotland: Drunk Muse Press, 2023
A Balcony Over a City Engulfed by War - English. Scotland: Drunk Muse Press, 2024.
Poetry in English Translation:
“Detaining a Poem”, “Beware” and “Story of a Child”, translated by Andrew Leber, Brooklyn Rail, March 2018.
“A Poet’s Hallucinations”, translated by Jonathan Wright, in ArabLit, September 2017.
“Resist, My People, Resist Them”, translated by Tariq al Haydar, in ArabLit, April 2016.

Other Artistic Ventures:
Survivors Recount, a documentary film on the uprooted village Al-Damoun in the Galilee, 2015, aired in Tamra, in the Galillee
Tell Me About My Homeland, 2012, an exhibition of photographs and poems displayed in Nazareth, Haifa, Tamra, Renne, Shefar’am, Amman (Jordan) and the Palestinian refugee camp Al Yarmouk in Syria. The exhibition was slated to open in Gaza in 2015, but was curtailed after Tatour’s arrest in October, 2015.
Survivors Recount, a documentary film on the uprooted village Al-Damoun in the Galilee, 2015.
I, Dareen Tatour”, 2018, a play in collaboration with theatre artist Einat Weitzman, directed by Nitzan Cohen and performed by Weitzman. This play has been shown at Tamu-na Theatre, Tel Aviv since October 2018 to packed audiences, and also abroad.
Min Hotfulla Dikt, 2022, a play in Sweden.
Not a Good Morning, Documentary short film, 2022.
I Prisoner N. 9022438, 2018, an exhibition of photographs and poems.

Prizes
2016: Maayan’s Award for Creativity in Struggle
2017: Carl Scharenberg Prize for standing against injustice through poetry
2019: OXFAM Novib/PEN award 2019 for freedom of expression.
2020: The Freedom of Expression Award in Norway - Oslo.
2020: ICORN: She was a guest on the ICORN program for two years. 15-09-2020 - 01-11-2022: ICORN residency in Sweden.
2023: The Palestine Book Awards 2023 - Creative AwardWinner - “I Sing From the Window of Exile”.
2022: Luleå International Film Festival Best short Documentary AwardWinner - Not a Good Morning, Documentary short film.

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