My Father from Haifa; dir. Omar Sharqawi
My Father From Haifa tells the very personal story of Danish Palestinian
director, Omar Shargawi’s
bid to persuade his father Munir to embark on an emotionally fraught journey back to
Haifa, with the aim of finding his childhood home.
Munir Shargawi says his entire life was shaped by one event - his family's forced evacuation from Palestine in 1948, when he was a boy of eight. He then wandered the world before ending up in Denmark, where he married and raised a family.
As much a personal as
a political exposition, the documentry opens an intimate window on a father and son
vying bitterly for control over memories of their family history, yet ultimately
growing closer mentally and emotionally as they confront that past together.
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