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WESTERN ARABS

By Omar SHARGAWI

Documentary - Completed 2019

WESTERN ARABS follows a Danish/Arab family over a period of 12 years struggling to heal wounds generated by the war and find ways to communicate.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2019

Panorama

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- DENMARK, NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- DANISH, ARABIC
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Omar SHARGAWI
- Producer(s)
- Katrin PORS (SNOWGLOBE FILM), Eva JAKOBSEN (Snowglobe Film), Mikkel JERSIN (Snowglobe Film), Frank HOEVE (BALDR FILM)
- Synopsis
- WESTERN ARABS is an intimate portrait, a documentary-hybrid, which follows the Danish/Arab family through both good and hard times over a period of 12 years. The father is Palestinian, the mother Danish, and the three sons become a result of the cultural encounter which occurred when the first immigrants arrived in Denmark in the 60s and 70s. In an attempt to get to the core of father´s trauma and not to pass violence down on next generation, the director, and the oldest of three sons, embarks on a difficult journey back to that place which his father left – wishing to find answers, insight and peace.
  
  A story that exemplifies a lot of the families in the Western world who have refugee backgrounds. Families who suffered from war and chaos, and who escaped it by fleeing their home countries.