Competition
24.04.01
My Own Personal Lebanon
by Theo Panagopoulos , United Kingdom, 2020, 16’
My Own Personal Lebanon is a short documentary following the attempts of a young Greek filmmaker to connect with his distant Lebanese origin by discovering his mother’s secret stories of the war.The film explores the emotional tension between national and personal identity through a conversation in a car, two installations in Athens, a book about Beirut and three spoken languages.