"Hiam Abbass is the Franco-Palestinian actor who has been a consistent presence in international cinema for more than 20 years, but cut through ultimately with her role as Marcia Roy, wife of Brian Cox’s media potentate Logan Roy, in Jesse Armstrong’s hit HBO TV drama Succession. Now her own personal story emerges – partly – in this heartfelt cine-memoir directed by her daughter Lina Soualem, who was brought up in France."

-- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:

“We don’t belong to a place; we belong to the story of the place.” By taking me each summer to her native Palestinian village, it seems that my mother wanted me to bathe in a pool of family stories and collective memory. In the film, I embody the fourth generation of women present on screen, and the first to be born outside of Palestine. I carry in me the memories of the women in my family and the history of forced displacement and dispossession they faced. By telling their story, I intend to reclaim the personal, historical and visual legacies that I have inherited. I question these legacies, confront them and intertwine them together in order to answer a question that haunts me: how does a woman find her place when caught between worlds?

Join us for a dialogue with Middle Eastern Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies after the film.