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PARTITION

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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 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

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
Screening followed by a conversation with Ghassan Salhan, Rayya Badran and Mahmoud Zeidan.

Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago, Chile (FIDOCS) | International Competition
November 19-26, 2025

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

Kino Rex | Bern, Switzerland
Saturday 13th December at 4pm — Followed by a Q&A with Diana Allan, in person.

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

Press

“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

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 مقابالت
Nakba Archive | أرشيف النكبة