Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction
Director: Michel Khleifi
Country: Palestine, Belgium
Year: 1984
Length: 32’
Genre: documentary
Cinematography: Yves Vandermeeren
Editing: Dominique Loreau, Monique Riesling
Sound design: Ricardo Castro
Producer: Michel Khleifi, Perrine Humblet
Like countless Palestinian villages since 1948, Ma’loul has been erased from the map. Every year on Israel’s ‘independence day’ (the only day that no permits are needed to move around that area freely), Ma’loul’s expelled indigenous Palestinian inhabitants go back to their village to show their children where they are from and to re-conjure the houses, the school, and the bakery.