Whether related through blood, heritage or “found family,” these films explore the dynamics of our closest bonds. MENA staff describes this program as pensive and bittersweet.
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A History of Sadness explores the emotional landscape of migration and motherhood through three generations of Iranian women — grandmother, mother, and daughter.
Drawing on family experience of destitution in 80s Paris, Bladi | My Country uses archives and fragmented memories to explore how displacement is embodied across generations.
For over 30 years, Burcu’s Angels was more than a store, it was a radical space of care. This film honours a Turkish queer elder and the vanishing spaces that held queer lives.
In their Algiers neighbourhood, Sifou and Mahrez gaze at the sea, thinking of their brothers who left in search of better lives. As uncertainty lingers, they wonder if they can break the deadlock.
