Your history books lied to you — these elders lived it, and they're finally talking.
The documentary records the memories of a group of Palestinian elders, mainly veterans from the 1948 expulsions. Their stories of refugee struggles are interspersed with poems of Mahmoud Darwish.
Writing
Darwish's poetry woven like grief-stricken scripture through testimony.
Direction
Bakri lets silence and weathered faces do the screaming.
Director
Mohammad Bakri
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