阿布-阿里的这部早期影片是 1982 年后从贝鲁特废墟中抢救出来的，直到最近才得以面世。这位曾与戈达尔合作拍摄《此地与别处》（Ici et Ailleurs）并创建巴解组织电影部的导演，在特殊条件下拍摄了黎巴嫩难民营的状况、以色列轰炸的影响以及训练营中游击队员的生活。《他们不存在》是一部风格独特的作品，展现了政治与美学之间的交集。这部影片现在已被公认为巴勒斯坦电影发展的基石，但直到 2003 年才在巴勒斯坦首映，当时一群巴勒斯坦艺术家将导演 "偷运 "到他家乡耶路撒冷的一家临时电影院（以色列禁止他进入该电影院）。 　　阿布-阿里在这次秘密活动中 20 年来第一次看到了自己的电影： "我们过去常说'为斗争而艺术'，现在则是'为艺术而斗争'"。 　　该片于 1974 年获得德国莱比锡电影节荣誉奖。该片还获得了 1978 年突尼斯 Cartage 电影节阿拉伯影评人联盟奖。 　　编剧兼制片人 Mustafa H. Abu Ali 于 1940 年出生于耶路撒冷。1967 年，他从伦敦电影技术学院（现名伦敦电影学院）获得电影制作文凭。1961 年至 1964 年，他在伯克利大学建筑学院攻读本科。1970 年，他在约旦安曼协助让-吕克-戈达尔拍摄电影《从这里到那里》。他编剧、导演和制片了约 30 部纪录片和一部剧情短片。几十年来，他还作为顾问参与了大量有关巴勒斯坦问题的纪录片。1973 年，他当选为贝鲁特巴勒斯坦研究中心巴勒斯坦电影小组主席。1971 年至 1980 年，他担任贝鲁特巴勒斯坦电影机构负责人。1974 年，他当选为阿拉伯纪录片制作者联盟执行委员会成员。1975 年，他与电影评论家 Hassan Abu Ghanimah 合作出版了《论巴勒斯坦电影》。1978 至 1979 年间，他担任《巴勒斯坦电影》月刊主编。1984 年至 2001 年，他在安曼创建并经营 Bissan Film 公司，主要从事电视制作。2004 年，他在巴勒斯坦拉马拉重新启动了巴勒斯坦电影集团（PCG）。阿布-阿里在卡罗维发利、莱比锡、迦太基以及巴格达国际电影节等著名电影节上屡获殊荣。 　　Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic. Now recognised as a cornerstone in the development of Palestinian cinema, the film only received its Palestine premiere in 2003, when a group of Palestinian artists "smuggled" the director to a makeshift cinema in his hometown of Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his entry). 　　Abu Ali, who saw his film for the first time in 20 years at this clandestine event noted: "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'" 　　The film won the Diploma of Honor from the Leipzig Film Festival, Germany, in 1974. The film also won the prize of the Arab Critics Union at the Cartage Film Festival, Tunis, in 1978. 　　Screenwriter and Producer Mustafa H. Abu Ali was born in 1940 in Jerusalem. He received his diploma in filmmaking from the London School of Film Technique (now called the London Film School) in 1967. He was an undergraduate student in the College of Architecture at Berkeley University between 1961 and 1964. He assisted Jean Luc Godard on his film From Here And There while shooting in Amman, Jordan, 1970. He wrote, directed and produced around thirty documentaries, and one short fiction film. He was also involved in a large number of documentary films on the Palestinian question as a consultant over decades. He was elected as the Chairman of the Palestinian Cinema Group at the Palestinian Research Center, Beirut, in 1973. Between 1971 and 1980, he worked as the Head of the Palestinian Cinema Institution in Beirut. In 1974, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Arab Documentary Film Makers Union. In 1975, he published On the Palestinian Cinema, which he wrote in collaboration with film critic Hassan Abu Ghanimah. He was Chief Editor of the monthly bulletin The Palestinian Picture between 1978 and 1979. Between 1984 and 2001, he established and ran Bissan Film in Amman, focusing on TV productions. He relaunched the Palestinian Cinema Group (PCG) in Ramallah, Palestine in 2004. Abu Ali received numerous awards at prominent film festivals including Karlovy Vary, Leipzig, Carthage as well as the Baghdad International Film Festival.