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black and white photo of me standing in mid-foreground, contemplatively looking away from the camera. I had a long sleeved black shirt on and was standing in front of a patterned wall on Bliss Street in Beirut, Lebanon.

Razan AlSalah

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  • Senior Lecturer, Communication Studies

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Razan AlSalah is a filmmaker based in Tiotiake (Montreal), Haudenesaunee Six Nation Territory. Her work explores the disappearance of relations, stories and histories in the colonial image, that operates as another border, another wall, retrieving it as a site of collective recollection and restless returns to Palestine.

Her films have been supported by the Canada Arts Council, Sundance and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. She is the  recipient of the Best National Short/Medium Length Award at Rencontres Internationales de Documentaires de Montreal, New Frontier Fellowship at Sundance, Latham Award for an Emerging Experimental Video Artist at Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Sunbird Award for Best Narrative Short at Cinema Days Palestine. 

Her films have screened at Montreal, Yamagata and Taiwan International Documentary Film Festivals, Prismatic Ground, Blackstar, Open City Docs London, and  Singapore, Valdivia, Melbourne, Glasgow and Beirut International, docLisboa and FID Marseille, among others.

Razan is a member of Regards Palestiniens film collective and teaches film at Concordia University's Communication Studies Department.

Watch her films on the Criterion Channel, Vimeo or at different libraries worldwide.

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