We're going to start our story today in Jordan, about 50 years ago.

More specifically, in a flat in Amman in 1968.

This is producer Izana Duidhar.

Mustafa Abu Ali, Haney Jouhreya, and Serefa Jodala were seated at the kitchen table.

The three of them were filmmakers, and they were Palestinian origin.

And that day, they were probably talking about the aftermath of the 1967 war.

The 1967 war, known also as a Six-Day War, saw Israel deliver what came to be known as the

Naksa or defeat to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Palestine.

That June, Israel occupied the whole of historical

Palestine, as well as additional territory from Egypt and Syria. By the end of the war, Israel had

expelled over 300,000 Palestinians from their homes, including over 130,000 who were displaced

for the second time since 1948.

For Mustafa Haney and Sulefa, this meant not being able to return to their hometowns.

They'd all been photographers and filmmakers for years before they were expelled from their homes,

but this war transformed their lives and their work forever.

It was this moment that something called the Palestinian Film Unit was born,

which would become a guerrilla film unit for about 15 years,

documenting the Palestinian struggle in the late 60s and 70s.

The Palestinian film units produced some 90 films

capturing some of the most important moments in Palestinian history. I discovered as I was working

that actually people do lots of things in order to replace missing photos and films.

This is Azal Hassan.

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