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Mustafa Abu Ali (Arabic: مصطفى أبو علي; 1940 in Maliha, Mandatory Palestine – 30 July 2009 in Jerusalem) 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Film Unit (PFU)--which saw its primary task as "documenting the revolution and creating an archive of images of historical documents".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 departments of the PLO's Unified Media. Abu Ali headed the department from 1973 to 1975. Abu Ali wrote four screenplays and directed more than 30 films, for which he won more than 14 awards, the most recent from the 2003 Ismailia Film Festival.

Notable films

• 1968: No to a Peaceful Solution
• 1971: With Soul, With Blood
• 1974: They Do Not Exist

See also

• Cinema of Palestine

References

1. "They Do Not Exist: Remembering Palestinian Filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali". Muftah. 25 July 2013. Archived from the original on 18 August 2013.
2. Anneka Lenssen; Sarah A. Rogers; Nada M. Shabout (2018). Modern art in the Arab world : primary documents. New York. ISBN 978-1-63345-038-7. OCLC 1035756538.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. ^ "Mustapha Abu Ali". Zoom Out. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
4. Khaled Elayyan (January 2008). "A Brief History of Palestinian Cinema". This Week in Palestine. No. 117. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
5. Emily Jacir (16 February 2007). "Palestinian Revolution Cinema Come to NYC". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
6. Annemarie Jacir (27 February 2007). "Coming Home: Palestinian Cinema". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
7. "They Do Not Exist". Palestinian Cinema Archive. Retrieved 7 June 2024 – via YouTube.
8. Sarah Wood (21 October 2009). "Lost picture show: the Palestinian Film Archive". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2024.

External links

• Mustafa Abu Ali at "Dreams of a Nation", Columbia University
• They Do Not Exist (Laysa lahum wujud) (25:09) (1974)

• Palestinian film directors
• 1940 births
• 2009 deaths
• Palestinian expatriates in the United States
• University of California, Berkeley alumni
• Palestinian expatriates in the United Kingdom