His work has been shown at film festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, Viennale and Rotterdam.
[citation needed] In 2009, he was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film seminar in New York.
[citation needed] Through 2009-2010 he was the Benjamin White Whitney fellow at Harvard University.
2011–2013, Kamal Aljafari was a senior lecturer at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.
[6] In 2021 Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival in Brazil devoted its Focus Section on the work of Kamal Aljafari.