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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 آلان هي مخرجة أفلام و أستاذة الأنثروبولوجيا، في جامعة ماكجيل. تشغل منصب المديرة المشاركة لأرشيف النكبة، وكرسي أبحاث كندا في أنثروبولوجيا الأرشيفات الحّية. تشمل منشوراتها على أصوات النكبة: تاريخ فلسطين الحي (٢٠٢١) و لاجئو الثورة: تجارب المنفى الفلسطيني (٢٠١٤)

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

Screenings

Upcoming screenings

Cinemino Ad Astra | Genova, Italy
December 10 at 9.30pm

ABC: Cinéma Café Théâtre | Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland
December 12 at 8:15pm. 11, rue du Coq | Followed by a Q&A with Diana Allan, in person

Kino Rex | Bern, Switzerland
December 13 at 10am — Followed by a Q&A with Diana Allan, in person.

Cinéma Public | Montreal, Canada
December 14 at 4:30pm

Cinéma L’Archipel | Paris, France
December 16 at 8pm, 17 Bd de Strasbourg, Paris

Ciné-Palestine: Archives vivantes | Marseille, France
December 18 at 9pm, Vidéodrome 2, Marseille

Second Encounter Film Festival | Metropolis Cinema, Beirut, Lebanon
February 6-14, 2026. In collaboration with the Network of Arab Alternative Screens (NAAS)

Taiwan International Documentary Festival | Biennale
Focus programme: ‘Palestine and Archive’
May 1-10, 2026.

Past 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
Wednesday, October 8th at 7pm | MQ de Sous-Gare

ReFocus Film Festival, Iowa City, USA | October 9-12, 2025
Friday, October 10th at 4pm | Ped Mall Scene 1

Family Film Project: Archive, Memory, Ethnography International Film Festival | Porto, Portugal
Official Competition - Memory and Archive
16 October 2025 at 21h15 | Batalha Centro de Cinema, Sala 1

Cineforum per un Mondo Nuovo | Bologna, Italy
24 October 2025, 8pm, via Azzo Gardino

Thessaloniki International Film Festival | Film Forward - Special Screenings
30 October - 9 November 2025

Muestra Internacional de Documental de Bogotá (MIDBO) | Bogotá, Colombia
November 7th, 8pm | Cinemateca de Bogotá, Sala Capital

ASWAT Festival - Creation and Alternative Scientific Writings in the Arab World | Beirut, Lebanon | Closing Film
November 8th, Cinéma Royal, Burj Hammoud, Beirut.
Screening followed by a conversation with Ghassan Salhan, Rayya Badran and Mahmoud Zeidan.

L’alternativa, Barcelona | International Competition
November 19 at 7:15pm & November 20 at 5pm, Auditorium CCCB.

Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago, Chile (FIDOCS) | International Competition
November 24 at 7:30pm. Centro Cultural La Moneda

Greenwish Cinema, Rome, Italy
November 25 at 9pm. Multisala Greenwich, Roma

RIDM, Montreal | National Competition
November 27 at 5:30pm & November 29 at 11:45am, co-presented by FIFEQ

Festival of Women in Film & Television, Athens | Official Selection
November 27-30th, Cinematheque of Greece

Press

Νταϊάνα Άλαν: «Η μνήμη είναι ένα πεδίο μάχης». By Ιωάννης Κοντός. November 27, 2025
https://poli-k.net/ntaiana-alan-mnimi-pedio-m/

“«Partition», corpi negati prima della Nakba,” di Lucrezia Ercolani. Il Manifesto, November 25, 2025.
https://ilmanifesto.it/partition-corpi-negati-prima-della-nakba

“Diana Allan, la Palestina fra i fotogrammi del colonialismo,” di Niccolò Della Seta Issaa. Il Manifesto, October 3, 2025. https://ilmanifesto.it/diana-allan-la-palestina-fra-i-fotogrammi-del-colonialismo

Prof. Diana Allan: “Nakba Bitmedi, Farklı Biçimlerde Sürüyor”, byEsma Güney Aksoy. Perspektif, October 6, 2025.
https://perspektif.eu/2025/10/06/prof-diana-allan-nakba-bitmedi-farkli-bicimlerde-suruyor/

Archivio Aperto: “Partition” di Diana Allan, approfondimento a cura di Lorenzo Giulano. September 28, 2025.
https://www.uncleyanco.it/2025/09/28/archivio-aperto-partition-di-diana-allan/

La grandeur de Mahmoud Darwish. K Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts. Cahier spécial 3, Automne 2025.
Photogrammes de Partition, pp. 326-346.
https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1596?file=1

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 the Open City Documentary Festival 2025 Critics Workshop with Another Gaze.

Awards

Grand Prize | International Competition | FIDOCS, Santiago de Chile | November 2025

“We are honored to award the FIDOCS International Grand Prize to a film that summons a ghost story—one that is not metaphor, but lived and ongoing. Drawing on a Rouchian device, it invites participants to narrate the images before them, allowing collective history to surface through memory. In doing so, the film reveals how remembrance becomes an act of endurance amid displacement and erasure.

By confronting and unsettling an archive, the film creates a space in which a stolen past may be reclaimed, revoiced, and repossessed. Its fractured words, haunted soundscape and decomposing images do not simply evoke violence; they show how colonialism shatters language, ruptures memory, and threatens to extinguish past, present, and future all at once.”

Grand Prize | National Feature-Length Competition | RIDM, Montreal | November 2025
GRAND PRIX DE LA COMPÉTITION NATIONALE LONGS MÉTRAGES

Best Feature Film | Archivio Aperto, Bologna, Italy | Young Jury | September 2025

Best Feature Film Award | Family Film Project, Porto, Portugal | October 2025

Words from the jury:
“The film creates a temporal tunnel that unites past and present, rescuing historical memories and images that have never really been lost – they have just changed their location. It directs the gaze of the viewer from the colonised to the coloniser. Here, the alien is you.”

Contacts

Distribution | توزيع
Interview Inquiries | استفسارات حول إجراء مقابلات
Nakba Archive | أرشيف النكبة