Partition

Taqsim

66th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Partition fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recordings of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, tracing lines of continuity left by seismic displacement. Silent films gathered in imperial collections hold histories that have barely been told, and ways of colonial seeing that seep into the present; Partition uses dialectical montage and asynchronous sound to examine both. Recovering Palestinian presence through story, voice and song, unraveling colonial pasts through soundscapes of the precarious present, Partition is a meditation on what bodies remember and empires forget.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Diana Allan

Script: Erin Weisgerber, Elian Mikkola, Diana Allan

Cinematography: Erin Weisgerber, Elian Mikkola, Diana Allan

Editing: Diana Allan

Sound: Julian Flavin

Music: Amal Kaawash, Bahaa al-Jomaa

Producers: Diana Allan

Format: DCP

Color: B&W

Production Country: Lebanon, Palestine, Canada

Production Year: 2025

Duration: 61'

Contact: Ariane Lorrain

Diana Allan

Diana Allan is a filmmaker and professor of anthropology at McGill University. She is the co-director of the Nakba Archive and holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives. Her publications include Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (2021) and Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014).