Aida’s Return عايدة // followed by Q&A with director Carol Mansour
Carol Mansour | 2024 | total Running time: 72m | book tickets
After her mother's passing, director Carol Mansour met friends in Beirut 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 at the same time 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.
Genre: documentary Original Language: Arabic, English, French (English subtitles) Age Rating: 12
Content notes: Themes of Zionist occupation, family trauma, illness and displacement. Depictions of grief and illness.
