AIDA RETURNS / CAROL MANSOUR
This is a sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of multiple journeys: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggling with Alzheimer’s finds solace in her repeated “returning” to the Yafa of her youth.
After her mother’s passing, and as she is closing up their home, director Carol Mansour, meets friends willing to carry Aida back with them to Palestine. The film accompanies Carol as she engineers a way to return her mother, aided by an unlikely set of friends and strangers coming together to facilitate what should have been a simple journey. This journey is simultaneously very private and yet universal. It is a tribute to the lost past of the director’s family, an attempt to restore part of both an individual and a collective memory, and a poetic nod and affirmation to all those exiled Palestinians forbidden from returning to their hometowns, even after death.
Date: SATURDAY JULY 13, 2024
RT: 78 mins.
Director: CAROL MANSOUR
This is a sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of multiple journeys: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggling with Alzheimer’s finds solace in her repeated “returning” to the Yafa of her youth.
After her mother’s passing, and as she is closing up their home, director Carol Mansour, meets friends willing to carry Aida back with them to Palestine. The film accompanies Carol as she engineers a way to return her mother, aided by an unlikely set of friends and strangers coming together to facilitate what should have been a simple journey. This journey is simultaneously very private and yet universal. It is a tribute to the lost past of the director’s family, an attempt to restore part of both an individual and a collective memory, and a poetic nod and affirmation to all those exiled Palestinians forbidden from returning to their hometowns, even after death.
Date: SATURDAY JULY 13, 2024
RT: 78 mins.
Director: CAROL MANSOUR
This is a sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of multiple journeys: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggling with Alzheimer’s finds solace in her repeated “returning” to the Yafa of her youth.
After her mother’s passing, and as she is closing up their home, director Carol Mansour, meets friends willing to carry Aida back with them to Palestine. The film accompanies Carol as she engineers a way to return her mother, aided by an unlikely set of friends and strangers coming together to facilitate what should have been a simple journey. This journey is simultaneously very private and yet universal. It is a tribute to the lost past of the director’s family, an attempt to restore part of both an individual and a collective memory, and a poetic nod and affirmation to all those exiled Palestinians forbidden from returning to their hometowns, even after death.
Date: SATURDAY JULY 13, 2024
RT: 78 mins.
Director: CAROL MANSOUR