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Between Palestine and Chile, ‘Voy y Vuelvo’ moves across time and territories, weaving stories of migration and textile labour. Through archives, observation and fiction, it reconstructs a fragmented memory in which the past insists on returning.
‘Voy y Vuelvo’ is a feature-length documentary that explores the relationship between Palestine and Chile through textiles, understood not only as craft and industry, but as a material archive of migration, labour and memory. In the present, as the textile industry has largely disappeared in both territories, the film observes abandoned factories, surviving workshops and intimate family archives to ask how this connection was formed and why it continues to insist today. The film follows fragments of lives shaped by the Palestinian diaspora in Chile, the largest outside the Arab countries. A story of construction and rupture emerges: from industrial promise to political and economic dismantling. Labibe’s experience of arriving in Chile after the Nakba enters into dialogue with that of Kamal, who decades later returns to Beit Jala carrying with him a Chile that no longer exists. In parallel, the film revisits the lost cinema of the Lama Brothers, Palestinian-Chilean pioneers of Arab cinema, through incomplete archives and autofictional scenes that inhabit the gaps of history, not to reconstruct what is missing, but to imagine it from the present. Moving between archive, observation and fiction, ‘Voy y Vuelvo’ does not seek to explain history, but to inhabit it as a fragmented fabric in which the past returns, repeats itself and remains unresolved.

Credits

Director
Andrés Khamis Giacoman, Francisca Khamis Giacoman
Screenwriter
Andrés Khamis Giacoman, Francisca Khamis Giacoman
Producer
Andrés Khamis Giacoman, Francisca Khamis Giacoman

About the Director

Francisca Khamis Giacoman
Andrés Khamis Giacoman and Francisca Khamis Giacoman are siblings born into the Palestinian diaspora in Chile. Their work explores questions of identity, memory and belonging within this community, addressing the complexities of the Palestinian experience in the Chilean context. Their creative practice is grounded in collaborative filmmaking and research-based processes. Their films and video inst
Andrés Khamis Giacoman
Andrés Khamis Giacoman and Francisca Khamis Giacoman are siblings born into the Palestinian diaspora in Chile. Their work explores questions of identity, memory and belonging within this community, addressing the complexities of the Palestinian experience in the Chilean context. Their creative practice is grounded in collaborative filmmaking and research-based processes. Their films and video inst
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