Origin: Palestina, Israel, Lebanon, UK | Fiction | Director: Umama Hamido | 60 minutes

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On Akka’s Shore is a fictional memoir of Umama and her friend Tareq Al Jazzar based on hallucinations, dreams and out-of-body experiences. Scenes slip between Akka in Palestine, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Hamido’s city of birth, Beirut and London, and their current home. On Akka’s Shore takes us on an exploration of the chaos of memory in relation to personal and collective history.

‘Yesterday I dreamt that I was flying over the streets of Beirut. I was my camera, my body and my eye and all of me was one with the lens. You asked me how it was. I told you, the feeling resembles everything in it. Do you think places get stuck in time when we leave them?’ (Umama Hamido).

More information: https://umamahamido.com/ON-AKKA-S-SHORE

Watch Umama talking about this movie with Andrea Luka Zimmerman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuMvnd50ZxI

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