Mawtini (My Homeland)

2023 | narrative short | 19 min
by Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
SUMMARY

Grieving the loss of her grandmother, Nawal fixates on keeping a fig sapling alive, her last remaining connection to Palestine. When she meets Tanya, an older Indigenous woman and the resident trouble-maker in her new apartment building, she learns what resilience and connection to the land under colonialism and capitalism really means.

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