Behind The Film: Traces of Home with Colette Ghunim
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On this episode of Indie Film Weekly, Glen Reynolds and Jason Connell speak with filmmaker Colette Ghunim about her debut feature documentary Traces of Home, which follows her taking her Mexican mother and Palestinian father back to the homes they were forced to leave as children, evolving into an exploration of displacement, intergenerational trauma, and healing.
Ghunim explains the project’s origins in cultural-root seeking, its deepening during the 2017 refugee ban and border separations, her parents’ differing comfort levels returning, and how the camera enabled difficult…
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