Kamal Aljafari – (Arabic: كمال الجعفري) is an experimental Palestinian filmmaker born in Ramle in Palestine. He attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and now lives in Berlin, Germany. In 2009, he was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film seminar in New York and was the Benjamin White Whitney fellow at Harvard University through 2009-2010.

He taught filmmaking at The New School in New York. In September 2011, Aljafari became a senior lecturer at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.[4] He was also a Film Study Center-Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.