Film of the Week

Curated by LatinArab

This is Beit Sahour (2024)

Documentary | 65m | Chile

At the age of 16, Fernanda discovers the footage of a trip her grandfather Fesal made to Palestine in 1995. Fesal and his three sisters are the children of Palestinians exiled to Chile in the 1930s. Over the course of ten years, Fernanda travels from Buenos Aires to Santiago de Chile, filming her family at each gathering. The stories and the spaces they inhabit weave together a memory, creating a family narrative that reveals the bonds and conflicts they hold with their past.

Director: Fernanda Chain Fuentes

Sound Designer: Andrés Perugini

Editor: Martín Emiliano Díaz

Producer: Martín Emiliano Díaz