Origin: Jordan , United Kingdom | Documentary | Director: Mais Darwazah | 54 minutes

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Take me home

Mais Darwazah 2008 docu 54 min.

Director's statement: "The home of the Palestinian today, is no longer
defined by geographic borders Take Me Home is a first person pilgrimage
tracing the legacy of a family who helped establish revolutionary movements
at a time when the Arab world's faith in the individual's freedom and
autonomy was selfevident." The sweeping desert steppes of Jordan as it
turns into Syria mark the first few moments of "home". The stirring score
of a female vocal against the traditional tabla drum tells us where we are
going. This is the journey one JordanianPalestinian woman takes whenever
she crosses the border to visit her grandmother and great aunt in Damascus.
The magic of her film is in its exploration of the concept of "home": As
Darwazeh makes the journey through the JordanianSyrian border, she is not
"going home." The journey, visually punctuated by black and white family
photographs of relatives in Palestine, and by archival prints of
Palestinian exiles, soon discloses its truth: that this is no conventional
homecoming.