Ajyal Short Film Competition
After months of displacement, a mother and daughter return to a home levelled, searching for refuge among ruins, carrying memories tucked in bags, and finding their only shelter at a grave.
After months of displacement, a mother and daughter return to a home levelled, searching for refuge among ruins, carrying memories tucked in bags, and finding their only shelter at a grave.
After seven months in tents, hospitals and schools, a mother bravely leads her daughter back to what remains of their shattered home. The streets are flattened; memory spills from the displacement bags they kept packed for flight. The son they called ‘the mountain’ is absent, yet present in gestures, in a grave that becomes shelter. Through a mother’s voice, the film searches for a place to mourn, to resist erasure and to hold family together.
