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Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari created a collage film using archive materials from the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut. These materials, including books, newspapers, and audiovisual artifacts, were seized by Israeli forces during the 1982 Lebanese civil war. Aljafari uses footage of destroyed houses, terrified children, and murdered bodies, overlaying the visuals with poems by Palestinian authors like Ghassan Kanafani. The film employs montage to link historical footage from the British mandate to contemporary imagery of Israeli forces. Aljafari also covers pejorative captions added by Israeli authorities with streaks of red paint to reclaim the archive from historical erasure.