documentary feature film
Year: 2018
Ojalá: la vuelta al origen is a documentary feature film about being a Palestinian descendant in Chile and maintaining the cultural resistance through dance.
From the perspective of bellydance and Dabke teacher Anne Marie Lolas, the film creates a conversation between diasporic identities and the practice of art.
Columbia University Scholars Program Independent Research Fellowship
Selected at the 2019 Haifa Independent Film Festival
Nominated for the Best Documentary Award at Cairo International Short Film Festival
http://www.lussasdoc.org/film-ojala_la_vuelta_al_origen-1,51677.html
Screening and installation in conversation with “Becoming Palestine” by Lina Meruane hosted by Reid Hall, the Columbia University Paris Global Center - 10.08.2018 / 10.09.2018