Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Nasri Hajjaj | 84 minutes

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The Shadow of absence

Nasri Hajjaj 2007 docu 84 min.

This absorbing documentary explores the anxiety of Palestinian exile
through an interrogation of relationships between place, home, and death.
Bringing together fascinating footage, interviews, and testimonies from
Palestinian families and comrades whose loved ones and friends have died
and been buried in exile, director Hajjaj spans the globe, bringing
extraordinary personal stories together from Vietnam to London. Each story
is unique, personal, and often surprising together these portraits of
Palestinians and their resting places are about life not death a life
experienced in exile, in revolution, in flight, and in every corner of our
world. Along with many others, the film tells the resonant stories of the
burials of legendary Palestinian exiles including Naji el Ali, Edward Said,
and Ibrahim Abu Lughod.

Review: https://electronicintifada.net/content/film-review-shadow-absence/3534