(Shorts 2)
Nada El-Omari
Canada
31’ | 2023
English with Arabic subtitles
Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story, and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they carry in the jasmine vines.
Animation: Carine Zahner
Music: Carol Ibrahim (Violin), Mostafa Saad (Oud)
Editor: Sonya Mwambu
Sound Design: Nada El-Omari
Nada El-Omari is a filmmaker and writer of Palestinian and Egyptian origin based in Montreal, Quebec. Her practice and research interests centre on the intergenerational transmissions of memories, displacement, and the stories of belonging and identity, which she explores through a poetic, hybrid lens. Focusing on process and fragments in text, sound, and image, Nada explores new ways to self-narrate and to speak hybridity and self.