For six years, Abigail Child focused the camera on the community of her mother and herself in the Syrian Arabic-Jewish (Sephardic) community of Deal, New Jersey. Virtuoso edited glimpse of a complex ‘unmelted pot’ with strong bonds yet also frightening and sharp sides. ‘This project is close to my heart,’ says Child.
Also in this combined programme
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Résistance aux tremblements
Moving fiction about the power and importance of memory with the most beautiful elderly French actress, Esther Gorintin. -
La memoria dei cani
Elegant drawn animation: in one travelling shot, we travel through the memories of a boy. A grandmother, a dog, a rifle. -
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 40'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
