Letters from a land unfamiliar
Keep an Eye 2024: Letters from a land unfamiliar (work in progress)
I go through my diary and the footage I collect to understand my relationship with my family, exile, and filmmaking. My daily life overlaps with the footage, my memories, hopes, and imagination.
Upon returning from a visit to his exiled family in Istanbul, Malaz immerses himself in the images and diary entries he gathered. While trying to understand the challenges his family faces, his own sense of alienation makes unclear the line between his mundane everyday life, the footage, and the world he’s trying to build. This entanglement of past, present, and imagined reality creates an evocative reflection on the experience of displacement.
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Production year
2024
Length
90 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Original title
Letters from a land unfamiliar (work in progress)
Part of
Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival 2024
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