Completed - DANISH, ARABIC - Documentary - 75 minutes
WESTERN ARABS follows a Danish/Arab family over a period of 12 years struggling to heal wounds generated by the war and find ways to communicate.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Omar SHARGAWI Producer(s) : Katrin PORS (SNOWGLOBE FILM), Eva JAKOBSEN (Snowglobe Film), Mikkel JERSIN (Snowglobe Film), Frank HOEVE (BALDR FILM)
WESTERN ARABS is an intimate portrait, a documentary-hybrid, which follows the Danish/Arab family through both good and hard times over a period of 12 years. The father is Palestinian, the mother Danish, and the three sons become a result of the cultural encounter which occurred when the first immigrants arrived in Denmark in the 60s and 70s. In an attempt to get to the core of father´s trauma and not to pass violence down on next generation, the director, and the oldest of three sons, embarks on a difficult journey back to that place which his father left – wishing to find answers, insight and peace.A story that exemplifies a lot of the families in the Western world who have refugee backgrounds. Families who suffered from war and chaos, and who escaped it by fleeing their home countries.
Country(ies) : DENMARK, NETHERLANDS
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2019 Panorama