FESTIVALS: * IDFA (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK) * Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland) * Festival dei Popoli (Firenze, Italy) * Millenium International Documentary Film Festival (Bruxelles, Belgium) * Middle East Now Festival (Firenze, Italy) * SalinaDocFest (Palermo, Italy) |
My Paper Life
In Brussels, the Iranian artist and film director Vida Dena meets Naseem, father of a Syrian family who fled from the war. Within the walls of their precarious home, she talks with Hala and Rima, his two eldest daughters, through drawings. The little bits of coloured paper come to life on the screen to relate the memories, dreams and destiny of this family in exile. Vida Dena’s feature documentary debut, My Paper Life, is an intimate and subtly expansive portrait of a Syrian family living in a house in Brussels that seldom leaves the confines of its four pink walls. Dena’s film focuses on the two eldest daughters, Hala and Rima and the family’s growing collection of drawings and dreams. Surrounded by sketches, the young women recall their journey and their home, their plans to study and to marry, and what other possibilities they hope this new life might have in store. PRESS PHOTOS 
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