Filmography
2018
2016
2015
2015
2012
2009
2007
2007
Sprich Bild, Sprich I In Development
Neighbours | Co-directed and Produced with Christiane Schmidt | 32 min
Zooland | Writer, Director, Cinematography, Producer | 26 min
Human Resource | Concept, Production | 12 min
Return To Life | Concept, Production, 2 Channel Video Installation | 5:30 min
The Turtle´s Rage | Writer, Director, with Co-Writer Silvia Wolkan | 70 min
The Calm Before The Storm | Writer, Director, Editor, 15 min
Angstkommen | Concept, Director | 1 min
Josip | Writer, Director, Editor | 7 min
Bursaries and Funding
2023
2022
2019
2019
2018
2016
2016
2014
2014
Künstlerinnenprogramm Film/Video der Stadt Berlin I Sprich Bild, Sprich
Bremer Dokumentarfilmpreis I Sprich Bild, Sprich
La Scam, Brouillon d´un reve, France | Still I Rise
FFA/CNC Development fund, Germany | Still I Rise
Fritt Ord Fund, Norway, Development Fund | Still I Rise
Artist Programme Film/Video of the City of Berlin
Gerd Ruge Scholarship | Filmfund NRW | Neighbours
Grenzgänger Scholarship I Robert Bosch Foundation
Berlin-Scholarship I Academy of Arts | Berlin
Awards
2020
2018
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2009
Best German Documentary I Doc. Berlin 2020 I Neighbours
Nomination for the German Critics Film Award | Neighbours
Best Director I The Turtle´s Rage I Europe-Orient Documentary Festival Assilah, Morocco
Special Jury Award I The Turtle´s Rage I Euganea Film Festival, Italy
Al Jazeera Golden Award I The Turtle´s Rage I Al Jazeera Documentary Festival, Qatar
Newcomer Award I The Turtle´s Rage I Duisburg Filmweek, Germany
Audience Award I The Turtle´s Rage I Duisburg Filmweek, Germany
Best Film I Muhr Arab Documentary Competition I The Turtle´s Rage I Dubai International Film Festival, V.A.E
Best Documentary I The Turtle´s Rage I Asiaticafilmmediale Rom, Italy
Regard Neuf I Newcomer Award I The Turtle´s Rage I Visions du Réel, Switzerland
Starter Film Award I The Calm before the Storm I City of Munich I Germany
Jury / Selection Commitee
2021
2020
2018/17
2015/14
2012
2010
Jury Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb
Jury member of dokka Documentary Festival Karlsruhe
Member of the Selection Commitee of the female artist programme of the City of Berlin
Member of the Selection Commitee of Duisburg Filmweek
Jury Member of the Freedom Award at Berlinale
Jury Member of the Starter Film Award of the City of Munich
Teaching
2023
2023
2023
2023
2023
2022
2021/22
2020/21
Berlin: City of erased past and present. The Palestinian case / UDK Berlin / Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Washington University
MOTHER! University of Arts Berlin
Decolonizing Berlin with Edward Said: The Arts and the City I Barenboim Said Academy Berlin
Listening, Staging, Talking. Feminist decolonial cinematic Practice I Filmarche Berlin
Documentary is fiction. The work of Trinh T. Minh-ha I Filmarche Berlin
Decolonial Cinema I Filmarche Berlin
Feminist decolonial gestures and aesthetics. University of Arts, Berlin
Seeing ourselves clearly. Decolonizing our gaze. Re-thinking our practice. University of Arts, Berlin.
Pro Quote Film, Intersectionality - why now? Keynote of Nahed Samour
Pro Quote Film, Intersectionality and strategies of resistance
Pro Quote Film, Questioning the canon
Pro Quote Film, Re-writing film history
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin, After the last sky. A festival in Berlin transgressing boundaries of Palestinian life and identity
Curatorial
2021
2021
2021
2021
2016
Talks (Selection)
2022
2022
2021
2020
2020
2020
2020
2019
"To unlearn dramaturgy", part of the lecture Political Aesthetics at the University of Mainz
"Feminist Aesthetics and family bodies". In Rücksprache – Dokumentarische Arbeiten aus Geschichte und Gegenwart. Duisburger Filmwoche / Arsenal.
Equality, Diversity and Solidarity in the Art World, Kunstverein Köln
HfG Offenbach, HOMO SAPIENS Lecture
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Democracy Lab Empowerment – Against Racism and Discrimination
Filmlöwin. Feministisches Filmmagazin. Special: People of Color im deutschen Film
Berlinale, Pro Quote Film, Panel #shareyourpower
Achtung Berlin Festival, Frauen of Color. Intersektionalität und der deutsche Film
Moderation
2023
2022
2022
Unsere Stimme Zählt für Teilhabe und Anti-Rassismus I Berlin
Zur Sichtbarkeit von Regisseurinnen in Kino und Filmgeschichte I Arsenal Institut für Film- und Videokunst e.V. Berlin
Berlinale Goes Kiez
Publications
2022
2018
2015
2014
(forthcoming) Die Strukturelle Beharrlichkeit des Rassismus im Kunst-und Kulturbetrieb. In Co-Autorenschaft mit Gürsoy Doğtaş
Kollektive Narrative. Azadeh Sharifi im Gespräch mit Max Czollek und Pary El-Qalqili, in: Fremdgemacht & Reorientiert. Jüdisch-muslimische Verflechtungen, Ozan Zakariya Keskinkilic/Armin Langer
Schildkrötenwut. Eine Narration des Widerstands, in: Voicing her stories, Leila Saadna, Hêja Ölki, Mahdis Azarmandi (Hg.), tektek
Der Nahostkonflikt aus Vater-Tochter Perspektive. Autobiographischer Dokumentarfilm als Konfliktnarrativ. Ein Interview mit Pary El-Qalqili, in: Zwischen den Fronten Grenzen neutraler Berichterstattung, Ronald Grätz/Erik Bettermann (Hg.)
Pary works with a core team of cinematographers, writers, editors and sound artists:
Aline László, Teresa Kuhn, Christiane Schmidt, Lena Hatebur, Ulrike Tortora, Silvia Wolkan, Azadeh Zandieh
Contact - paryelqalqili@gmail.com