WESTERN ARABS

By Omar SHARGAWI

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Documentary - Completed 2019

WESTERN ARABS follows a Danish/Arab family over a period of 12 years struggling to heal wounds generated by the war and find ways to communicate.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2019
Panorama
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • DENMARK, NETHERLANDS
    • Languages
    • DANISH, ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 75 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Omar SHARGAWI
    • Producer(s)
    • Katrin PORS (SNOWGLOBE FILM), Eva JAKOBSEN (Snowglobe Film), Mikkel JERSIN (Snowglobe Film), Frank HOEVE (BALDR FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • WESTERN ARABS is an intimate portrait, a documentary-hybrid, which follows the Danish/Arab family through both good and hard times over a period of 12 years. The father is Palestinian, the mother Danish, and the three sons become a result of the cultural encounter which occurred when the first immigrants arrived in Denmark in the 60s and 70s. In an attempt to get to the core of father´s trauma and not to pass violence down on next generation, the director, and the oldest of three sons, embarks on a difficult journey back to that place which his father left – wishing to find answers, insight and peace.

      A story that exemplifies a lot of the families in the Western world who have refugee backgrounds. Families who suffered from war and chaos, and who escaped it by fleeing their home countries.