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WEST ... EAST


Directed by | Rina Khoury

Genre fiction  |  Length: 8mins  |  Year of production: 2006


Rina Khoury's awardwinning short is snapshot of the expulsions of 1948.

�West ... Beginning of the journey East ... End of the journey� This path was taken by many villagers fleeing their home seeking refuge� Amer and his blind mother were among these refugees� They embarked on this journey not knowing where it would lead and how long they would be able to survive it��
(director's statement).

Set in a deceptively lush fig orchard, the mother and son's exhaustion and the distant rumbling of artillery hint at the horrors of the Nakba.