Scandar Copti, director of "Haifa Chronicles": "I don't make films for aesthetic purposes"
Interview In "Haifa Chronicles - Palestinian Stories," a banal car accident triggers a series of revelations that threaten the facade of a well-off Palestinian family living in Israel.
Interview by Xavier Leherpeur
Scandar Copti SCANDAR COPTI
Sixteen years after "Ajami," his first film, unanimously acclaimed by French critics upon its release, the Palestinian filmmaker delves into the intimacy of an Arab family living in Haifa. His choral narrative serves as a revelation of the social and human complexity of Israeli society and evokes the irrepressible fractures of coexistence.
When did you start writing this film?Scandar Copti was filmed in 2018, and I started filming in 2020. But the Covid crisis hit, and we had to stop filming after three days. We resumed filming in 2022, well before the war.
The film is impacted by what is happening now. Claim…
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