1975 · Selected films
A landmark historical work that remains central to Borhane Alaouié’s cinematic legacy.
Kafr Kassem stands as a pivotal work in Borhane Alaouié’s filmography, engaging directly with historical violence and the question of how such events live on in collective memory.
Through its framing, pacing, and attention to everyday detail, the film approaches its subject not only as an event in time, but as something that continues to echo through people, places, and institutions.
Watch Kafr Kassem below, or view the film on the project’s YouTube channel.
The film’s attention to witness, testimony, and the structures around violence resonates strongly with Alaouié’s broader interest in memory and political history. Its formal choices can be read as an attempt to hold space for what is difficult to represent, rather than to resolve or explain it away.
Kafr Kassem can be approached through several lenses: the history it engages, the lives it follows, and the film’s own relationship to archival and public memory. This page is intended as a starting point for viewers, researchers, and programmers who wish to situate the film within a wider context.
As part of the renovation and preservation project for Borhane Alaouié’s films, Kafr Kassem occupies a central place. Screenings, restored editions, and archival partnerships related to the film will be announced here as they become available.
If you are interested in programming Kafr Kassem or learning more about its restoration, you can use the contact and archive sections of the main site to reach the project coordinators.