Director: Tareq Khalaf
Feature | Documentary | PS | Post-Production

Synopsis:
Worried about the deteriorating political situation in the West-Bank, Azziza asks Tareq to leave Palestine and join the rest of his family in the US, leaving her and his grandmother alone in a state of war. Tareq takes sanctuary in Azziza’s garden, observing her seasonal way of living while confronting the difficult decision to leave.

Tareq Khalaf is a filmmaker, architect, and cultural producer based in Ramallah, Palestine. His research in urbanism focuses on the disappearance of agrarian livelihoods and rooted forms of belonging to place. Tareq has used film, socially engaged art and sculpture to address geographic fragmentation and the alienating impacts of settler colonial violence in Palestine. As the cultural manager at Sakiya, Tareq’s work has revolved around the preservation of agrarian knowledge and ways of living, as well as finding visual and narrative form to speak about the entanglements of political and ecological crises in his homeland.