This I Remember
Qumra Projects
/ Short Documentary / Lebanon, Qatar
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Synopsis
Interweaving historical records with the filmmaker’s subjective recreations of super 8 film archives, this short documentary tells the story of growing up in the Lebanese diaspora. Her recollection is an ebb and flow of pieces she involuntarily consumed from different types of media growing up, and firsthand experiences she remembers from her yearly trips to her hometown. These pieces have shaped her understanding of her identity, and what it means to be a Lebanese who was born and raised abroad. The film centres on three moments—her earliest recollection of Lebanon that she was too young to understand, her dislike of spending her summers there as a teenager, and her need to reconnect with her identity in her adulthood.