His films include The Roof (2006), Port of Memory (2009) and Recollection (2015). Aljafari was featured artist at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2009 in New York, as well as Benjamin White Whitney Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and Center for Film Studies at Harvard University in 2009 and 2010. He taught film at the New School and, between 2011 and 2013, acted as the head of the film directing program at the DFFB Berlin.