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A HOME OF ONE'S OWN

بيت اتنين تلاتة

By Ruba ATIYEH

CEEFILM BEIRUT - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2019

Growing up in an exiled family, Ruba has internalized her mother's memories and struggle. As she seeks to de-structure her streams of memories and create a new narrative to deal with her ongoing sense of estrangement, one question persists: is life as alluring if one is no more an outsider?

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, Experimental
- Countries
- LEBANON, JORDAN
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Ruba ATIYEH
- Writer(s)
- Ruba ATIYEH
- Producer(s)
- Ruba ATIYEH (CeeFilm Beirut), Ibrahim DESOUKY (Triangle Studios)
- Synopsis
- Through an internalized perspective of a 4 to 7 year old girl, the film rebuilds a moment in time when the dream of the leftist generation of the 1970s collapsed. While Ruba’s parents where militants in what was called the National front during the Lebanese war, she grew up in Jordan after the forced exile of her parents from Beirut. This collective narrative becomes a backstory for Ruba’s mother struggle with a constant feeling of estrangement, even from husband, and a sense of loss that was passed to Ruba.
  The film tells the story of two independent women struggling with estrangement.
  After Ruba makes a choice to live in Beirut, the city where her mother’ dreams were left, the film takes off at a moment when she is visiting her mother in Amman.
  Timed with the abrupt loss of her partner, Ruba learns that Hayat, her mother, has cancer for the second time. Throughout this trip, fragments of Ruba’s memories of her own childhood and of Hayat’s start coming up. Things between mother and daughter take an edgy turn when Ruba starts bringing up those past memories of their exile and loss, Hayat receives this contemplation with discomfort. Hayat’s attempt to find her place with a new collective is not met by Ruba, who feels estranged from this collective.