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Qais Al-Zubaidi

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Qais Al-Zubaidi (قيس الزبيدي) is an Iraqi screenwriter, director, cinematographer and editor born in Baghdad in 1945. He studied editing and image at the Higher Institute of Cinema of Babelsberg in Germany. He first worked on German documentaries for the Higher Institute of Cinema and for Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) studio. Many of his documentaries, including Far from the Homeland (1969) and Testimonies of Palestinian Children in Wartime (1972), were shot in Syria and focused on Palestinian people. He has also edited famous Arab films such as Crown of Thorns directed by Nabil Al-Maleh, The Knife directed by Khaled Hamadeh, Beirut, Oh Beirut director by Maroun Bagdadi, and The Night directed by Muhammad Malas.

01-01-1945

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Capricorn

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Kaiss al-Zubaidi, Kays al Zubaidi, Kaïs Al-Zoubaïdi, Kais al-Zoubaidi

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Baghdad, Iraq

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23 Works

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5 Works

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5 Works

The Visit

The Visit

An oneiric film poem about a murder in occupied Palestine, in which Qais Al-Zubaidi used drawing, poetry, music, phonograph and pantomime with his technical virtuosity and formal expressionism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.
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2024

The Visit

The Visit

An oneiric film poem about a murder in occupied Palestine, in which Qais Al-Zubaidi used drawing, poetry, music, phonograph and pantomime with his technical virtuosity and formal expressionism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.
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2024

The Visit

The Visit

An oneiric film poem about a murder in occupied Palestine, in which Qais Al-Zubaidi used drawing, poetry, music, phonograph and pantomime with his technical virtuosity and formal expressionism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.
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2024

The Night

The Night

A young man aspires to follow in his father's footsteps and live up to his legacy of resisting the Zionist occupation. He reflects on his father's journey from his arrival in Quneitra in 1936 to his death after the Zionist army captured the city.
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1992

Voice of the Silent Time

Voice of the Silent Time

Directed by Qais Al-Zubaidi.
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1990

The Freedom Giver

The Freedom Giver

The film depicts the many Lebanese and Palestinian Resistance acts carried out by different factions against the Israeli occupation in Lebanon.
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1987

Waheb al Horriyah

Waheb al Horriyah

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1987

Waheb al Horriyah

Waheb al Horriyah

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1987

A File on Issues

A File on Issues

Directed by Qais Al-Zubaidi.
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1984

Palestine: Chronicle of a People

Palestine: Chronicle of a People

Directed by Qais Al-Zubaidi.
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1982

Homeland of Barbed Wire

Homeland of Barbed Wire

Directors belonging to the PLO film organisations were barred from entering territories under Israeli administration. Kais Al-Zubaidi sent a West-German film team into the territories occupied in 1967. They talked to Palestinian peasants and refugees and to Israeli settlers. The former have lost their fields and meadows and are to be driven further East from the camps in which they lived since 1948. The latter call their new settlement area “liberated land”.
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1980

Hisar Muddad

Hisar Muddad

Using film footage from various sources, Kaiss al-Zubaidi creates a description of the everyday lives of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Through skilful montage, the constant latency of conflict and violence becomes a relationship between the images. Counter-Siege was awarded one of seven ‘Main Prizes’ by the international jury at the 1979 Oberhausen Short Film Festival.
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1978

Al-Yazerli

Al-Yazerli

The Yazerli is the foreman who provides work to day laborers. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes introduce characters the boy encounters in a single workday. The filmmaker explores the child’s vivid imaginary world while tangibly conveying the physical harshness and repressed sexuality of a life spent in poverty and manual labor. Based on a novella by Hanna Mina.
6.0

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1974

Al-Yazerli

Al-Yazerli

The Yazerli is the foreman who provides work to day laborers. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes introduce characters the boy encounters in a single workday. The filmmaker explores the child’s vivid imaginary world while tangibly conveying the physical harshness and repressed sexuality of a life spent in poverty and manual labor. Based on a novella by Hanna Mina.
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1974

Knife

Knife

Syrian-Palestinian film The Knife (1971), based on Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani‘s novella All That’s Left To You; an allegorical story of Palestinian attachment to land and family, and the sorrow over their loss.
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1971

Men Under the Sun

Men Under the Sun

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1970

Men Under the Sun

Men Under the Sun

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1970

Men Under the Sun

Men Under the Sun

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1970

Far Away From Home

Far Away From Home

A film documenting Al-Sabineh camp for Palestinian refugees in Syria, with an unprecedented experience at the time, as he took the children after filming to show them the footage he filmed of them, the camp and its people, and recorded their reactions, laughter and speech, and added them to the film.
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1969

Loin du pays

Loin du pays

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1969

Gull's Flight of the Years

Gull's Flight of the Years

Directed by Qais Al-Zubaidi.
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1968