Partition
Diana Allan, 2025, 60 min

Followed by Q&A with the filmmaker

“The Nakba isn’t over” was a phrase heard repeatedly by the filmmaker and academic Dr Diana Allan in the making of Partition. The project draws together found footage from British and Israeli colonial archives with audio recordings collected from 2002 to the present by the Nakba Archive. Newsreels, recruitment films, government propaganda, and films shot by the British army film unit during the British occupation of Palestine are re-photographed on 16mm, remade and reframed through a variety of hand processing techniques. These are set against a soundtrack composed of narrative fragments, songs, poetry, and field recordings from the refugee camps of Lebanon. Partition demonstrates how history persists, and the displacement of Palestinians has extended far beyond the original Nakba of 1948. The resulting film project is grounded in academic rigour as it challenges the power of the archive in establishing truth, power and memory.

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Showing as part of Open City Documentary Festival