Turtles Are Always Home (Sokun Al Solhufat)
New Voices in Cinema
Rawane Nassif / Short Experimental / Qatar, Lebanon, Canada / 2016
Interests: Arthouse
MENA Premiere
Rated: Parental guidance is advised for viewers under the age of 13. Individuals under the age of 13 are not admitted into cinemas unless accompanied by an individual aged 18 or older.
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Synopsis
Lebanese-Canadian filmmaker
Rawane Nassif considers the feelings of displacement and otherness that come with being an expat – a situation that gives rise to a contradictory sensation of transient belonging. Her exploration of a residential complex that is still under construction allows the artist to reflect on what it means to live in a fragmented series of places one calls “home” – and to recognise the difference between a home for one’s heart and a home for one’s feet.
About the Director
Born in Beirut in 1983, Rawane Nassif is a Lebanese-Canadian filmmaker and anthropologist. She works in research and films often addressing subjects such as space, identities, displacement and memory. She collaborated on several documentaries in Lebanon, wrote a book on the politics of memory in the reconstruction of downtown Beirut, worked with immigrants and indigenous people in Canada, conducted visual research on nomadic traditions in Kyrgyzstan, taught anthropological courses in Tajikistan, wrote children’s books based on collected oral histories in Honduras and worked as a senior researcher on art films commissioned by the National Museum of Qatar and produced by the Doha Film Institute. Her latest short 'Turtles are Always Home' screened at the Berlinale and TIFF and won international awards including the best new vision short at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the best experimental at the New Orleans Film Festival.
Credits
- Director
- Rawane Nassif
- Screenwriter
- Rawane Nassif
- Producer
- Rawane Nassif
- Editor
- Rawane Nassif
- Cinematographer
- Rawane Nassif
- Production Company
- Doha Film Institute
- Sound
- Rawane Nassif, Sasha Parsons
- Mixing
- Victor Bresse