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Aida Returns(2024)
Status: Released
Date: 2024-07-02
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Time: 1h 17m
Overview:
A poignant, sometimes sad, sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of a multiple journey: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggled with losing herself to Alzheimer’s disease, but finding solace in her repeated “returning” to the Yafa and Palestine of her youth; the journey of the loss of a parent; and the ultimate return journey back to Yafa where Aida would finally find rest and be herself once more.
Languages: Arabic, English, French.
Countries:
Canada,
Lebanon,
Palestinian Territory
ProductionCompanies:
Forward Film Production
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