Traces of Home

2025 | Color | 92:34

Filmmaker Colette Ghunim travels with her parents to find the ancestral houses they were forced to flee as children in Mexico and Palestine. Colette’s initial desire to heal her disconnect from her cultures and her parents reveals an internal quest to discover home within herself.

Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Ghunim; Colette
Script: Ghunim; Colette, Maamouri; Sara
Production: Maamouri; Sara, Rybicky; Dan, Fahoome; Capella
Photography: Ghunim; Hosni, Wise; Monica , Saadeh; Rafic, Ghunim; Colette
Music: Fadel; Omar
Participation year at FICM: 2026

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