Origin: Denmark | Documentary | Director: Omar Shargawi | 52 minutes

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My Father from Haifa

Omar Shargawi 2009 docu 52 min.

My Father From Haifa tells the very personal story of Danish-Palestinian
director, Omar Al Shargawi's search for understanding and reconciliation
with his father Munir, who fled Palestine as a child in 1948. The film
covers Omar's bid to persuade his father to embark on an emotionally
fraught journey back to Haifa with the aim of finding his childhood home.
As much a personal as a political exposition, the doc opens an intimate
window on a father and son vying bitterly for control over memories of
their family history, yet ultimately growing closer mentally and
emotionally as they confront that past together. Their voyage, to Damascus
and then Haifa, is one of heart and of body - and Shargawi's intelligent
composition offers us a stylish as well as a privileged view of this moving
journey.

Full feature: https://youtu.be/k5CcZ4zOLaU
(Danish/Arabic/Hebrew)

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