Rashid Masharawi

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Rashid Masharawi ( Arabic رشيد مشهراوي, DMG Rašīd Mašharāwī ; * 1962 in Al-Shati Camp near Gaza ) is a Palestinian filmmaker .

life and work

Masharawi was born in the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. He is considered the only filmmaker who “... worked in Palestine and described life in the camps in documentaries and feature films” in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1996 Rashid Masharawi founded the Cinema Production Center in Ramallah to produce local films there. Thanks to the mobile cinema funded by Masharawi, he enables film screenings in Palestinian refugee camps. In this context he made the film “Ticket to Jerusalem”, which shows the laborious work of a mobile projectionist through the occupied Palestinian territories to Jerusalem. The European premiere of the film took place in 2002 as part of the documenta11 film program .

In 2002 Masharawi made the film “Checkpoint”, which consists of a single 50-minute shot and slowly observes the people waiting on the Palestinian side of the Kalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem. At dOCUMENTA (13) he showed (together with Khaled Hourani ) the 52-minute film Picasso in Palestine , which shows the transport of the Picasso painting Buste de Femme (1943) from the Dutch Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven to Ramallah in the Palestinian West Bank , where it was exhibited at the International Art Academy Palestine (IAAP) in 2011 .

“Some try to create a Palestinian situation with the means of the cinema. What I'm trying to do is to make a cinema out of the Palestinian situation. "

- Rashid Masharawi

He has made a name for himself as a film artist with documentaries and feature films. Masharawi has received several awards for his work.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1989: Shelter
  • 1994: Curfew - curfew
  • 1996: Haifa ( Cannes International Film Festival )
  • 2002: Ticket to Jerusalem
  • 2005: assassinations
  • 2006: Waiting
  • 2008: Eid milad Laila
  • 2014: Rasael men Al Yarmouk
  • 2017: Writing on Snow

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notable Palestinians Rashid Masharawi - filmmaker accessed on January 11, 2019 (English)
  2. ↑ Ludwig Seyfarth: Fareed Armaly: The Work of Art Palestine . In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 24, 2002
  3. ↑ Van Abbemuseum website Van Abbemuseum Buste de Femme accessed on March 9, 2019 (Dutch)
  4. ^ Khaled Hourani and Rashid Masharawi: Picasso in Palestine . On the City Galerie Wellington website.
  5. ↑ Rashid Masharawi , accessed January 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ HKW Rashid Masharawi , accessed on January 11, 2019.
  7. ↑ Film Review: Rashid Masharawi's “Waiting” accessed on January 11, 2019 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Masharawi, Rashid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Al-Shati Camp near Gaza