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Mustafa Abu Ali

Mustafa Abu Ali

Known for

Directing

Biography

Mustafa Abu Ali ( مصطفى أبو علي) was a Palestinian filmmaker. Abu Ali studied at the University of California-Berkeley in the 1960s before studying cinema in London, graduating in 1967. He is considered one of the founders of Palestinian cinema, and the Palestinian Cinema Association in Beirut in 1973, (re-established in Ramallah in 2004). Along with Sulafa Jadallah and Hani Jowharieh, he established the Palestine Film Unit (PFU)--which saw its primary task as "documenting the revolution and creating an archive of images of historical documents". After the PLO's move to Lebanon after the events of Black September, the PFU was renamed the Palestine Cinema Institute and became one of the seven...

Best known work

Here and Elsewhere

Here and Elsewhere

1976
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

1971
They Do Not Exist

They Do Not Exist

1974
Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image

Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image

2026
Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza

Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza

1973
With Blood and Soul

With Blood and Soul

1971
No to a Peaceful Solution

No to a Peaceful Solution

1968
A Zionist Aggression

A Zionist Aggression

1973
Tall el Zaatar

Tall el Zaatar

1977
Palestine in the Eye

Palestine in the Eye

1977

Filmography

  1. 2026

    Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image

    as The Believer

  2. 1977

  3. 1977

  4. 1977

  5. 1976

    Here and Elsewhere

    Assistant Director

  6. 1975

  7. 1974

  8. 1973

  9. 1973

  10. 1971

  11. 1971

  12. 1968

  13. 1968

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