EP. 03 Colette Ghunim: Intergenerational Resilience
EP. 03
Colette Ghunim spent nine years making a film about two houses her parents were forced to leave as children — one in Palestine, one in Mexico — and found, somewhere in the middle of it, that the distance she was really trying to close was the one between her and them.
In this conversation, she talks about what a camera makes possible that a dinner table doesn't. About grieving a homeland she's never lived in. About the resilience that gets handed down alongside the wound, and why we so rarely name that part. And about what it means to stop shrinking to fit the version of yourself your family already knows.
Her first feature, Traces of Home, won Best Documentary at DOC NYC. Learn more about the film here: https://www.tracesofhome.com
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