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- Country of residence: Lebanon
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Ibrahim Hassan Sarhan, born in Jaffa in 1915, is the first Palestinian filmmaker.
His first film was a coverage of the visit of Saudi King Abdulaziz in 1935 and contains rare scenes about Palestine.
He documented the visit of Ahmed Helmy Pasha, a member of the Higher Arab Commission for Palestine, in cinematically, and later founded the Palestine Studio in Jaffa.
He was displaced to Jordan during the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, where he participated in the first Jordanian feature film directed by Wassef Sheikh Yassin, entitled “Struggle in Jerash” in 1958.
He died in 1987 in the Shatila refugee camp, near the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
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