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It’s the year 2000 and Yousef is seven years old. He lives with his family in the West Bank as the Israeli army starts bombing during the Second Intifada.
Unable to control the chaos around her, Suha turns to her trusted camcorder in an effort to document her children growing up – Christmas, children’s parties, reading Harry Potter, homework – as the bombs rain down. One night she promises that if they survive until the next day, they’ll leave, but they never do. Years later, an adult Yousef finds his mother’s videotapes. Searching through them, he weaves together fragmented images, learning more about that era, and his mother, who documented this world as her children huddled for safety in the basement.
Followed by a Q&A with director Yousef Srouji.
This screening will be Open Captioned and the Q&A will be Signed – a British Sign Language interpreter will be visible on stage throughout the event.
In this joint curation between Bertha DocHouse and Sheffield DocFest, audiences are invited to discover the gems, highlights and new voices in non-fiction cinema which premiered in the past festival edition.
