PARTITION
  • Film Stills




  • Official Trailer



  • Excerpt #1



  • Director’s Biography
Diana Allan is a filmmaker and professor of anthropology at McGill University. She is the co-director of the Nakba Archive and holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives. Her publications include Voices of the Nakba: A living history of Palestine (2021) and Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014).

Filmography
So Dear, So Lovely, 23min, 2018 
Terrace of the Sea, 52min, 2009 
Still Life, 25min, 2007 
Shatila, Beirut, 44min, 2001


ديانا آالن هي مخرجة أفالم وأستاذة  األنثروبولوجيا، في جامعة ماكجيل. تشغل منصب المديرة المشاركة  ألرشيف النكبة، وكرسي أبحاث كندا في أنثروبولوجيا األرشيفات الحّية. تشمل منشوراتها على أصوات النكبة: تاريخ فلسطين الحي (٢٠٢١) و الجئو الثورة: تجارب المنفى الفلسطيني (٢٠١٤)


األفالم
غال جدًا، جميل جدًا، ٢٣ دقيقة، ٢٠١٨
شرفة البحر، ٥٢ دقيقة، ٢٠٠٩
طبيعة ساكنة، 25 دقيقة، ٢٠٠٧
شاتيال، بيروت، 44 دقيقة، ٢٠٠١

  • Screenings


Upcoming screenings

Apricot Tree International Documentary Film Festival, Armenia | Feature-length films competition program
August 30 to September 6, 2025, in the Armenian villages of Debed and Dsegh

Achivio Aperto, Bologna, Italy | International Competition
Saturday, September 27, at 6:00 PM and Sunday, September 28, at 8:30 PM.

Festival Onirique des Libertés Human Rights Arts Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland | Official Selection
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025

ReFocus Film Festival, Iowa City, USA | October 9-12, 2025

Family Film Project: Archive, Memory, Ethnography International Film Festival | Porto, Portugal
Official Competition - Memory and Archive - 16 October 2025 at 21h15  | Batalha Cinema Centre



Past screenings

IFFR - International Film Festival of Rotterdam | World Premiere
Friday 31 january 2025 | 19.00 - 20.42 | KINO 3
Saturday 1 february 2025 | 14.00 - 15.42 | LantarenVenster 6 | Tickets


Cinéma du Réel, Paris | Special Screening
Wednesday 26 March 2025| 8 p.m. | L’Arlequin
Followed by a discussion with Diana Allan and Ghassan Salhab
Diana Allan will also be participating in Festival conversations on Wednesday 26 March at the Théâtre de l’Alliance Française.


Festival Ciné-Palestine, Paris  | Official Selection
Friday, April 25 | Cinéma Saint André des Arts | Paris  


Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York City | Official Selection
Sunday, May 4 at 4:30pm | Linder Theatre | NYC
Director in attendance


Open City Docs, London | Official Selection
Thursday, May 8 at 6:15pm | Close-Up Cinema | London


Documenta, Madrid | International Competition
Saturday, May 10 | Cineteca Madrid 


Festival Ciné-Palestine, Marseille | Parallel Screening
Friday, May 23 | Screening  and Roundtable discussion | Polygone Étoilé | Marseille


Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic | Imagina Section
July 4-12, 2025.
Press

Cinéma du Réel, discussion avec Diana Allan et Ghassan Salhab. Podcast, 52min.
https://youtu.be/o7la4m_R90M


“Ongoing return”: A living archive of Palestine, by Incé Husain. May 7, 2025
https://antlerrivermedia.ca/ongoing-return-a-living-archive-of-palestine/


الفیلم الوثائقي تقسیم تفکیك الأرشیف الاستعماري لفلسطین
AlQuds.co.uk


Reading Through Loss: Archival Film Practices at IFFR 2025, by Emily Jisoo Bowles. 
Ultra Dogme, March 18, 2025.
https://ultradogme.com/2025/03/19/reading-through-loss/


The Continuous Cinema of the Decolonized, in the 59th Kalovy Vary International Film Festival. By Christos Skyllakos, edited by Ela Bittencourt, FIPRESCI 2025.
https://fipresci.org/report/karlovy-vary-2025-skyllakos/


Diana Allan on Partition, by Ella Slater. https://opencitylondon.com/notes/diana-allan-on-partition/
This interview was conducted during Open City Documentary Festival 2025 in the framework of the Critics Workshop with Another Gaze.
  • Contacts  | لإلتصال
Distribution | توزيع
Interview Inquiries | استفسارات حول إجراء مقابالت
Nakba Archive | أرشيف النكبة