Aida’s Return // followed by a Q&A with director

Aida’s Return

dir. Carol Mansour
2024
Original Language: Arabic, English, French (English subtitles)
Genre: Documentary

After her mother's passing, director Carol Mansour, met friends in Beirut willing to carry Aida back with them to Palestine. The film accompanies Carol as she engineers a way to return her mother aided by an unlikely set of friends and strangers coming together to facilitate what should have been a simple journey. This journey is at the same time very private and yet universal. It is a tribute to the lost past of the director's family, an attempt to restore part of both an individual and a collective memory, and a poetic nod and affirmation to all those exiled Palestinians forbidden from returning to their hometowns, even after death.

Content notes: Themes of Zionist occupation, family trauma, illness and displacement. Depictions of grief and illness.