Kamal Aljafari is a filmmaker. His filmography includes The Roof (2006), Port of Memory (2009), Visit Iraq (2003), Balconies (2007) and My Father’s Video (2009) and Recollection (2015). He was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Seminar in New York and in 2009/2010 he was the Benjamin White Whitney Fellow of Harvard University. In 2010, he taught film at The New School in New York City, and from 2011 to 2013 he was a lecturer and program director at the German Academy of Film and Television (DFFB) in Berlin.