Film

Aida Returns

Saturday, October 19, 2024
3:00 pm–4:30 pm
Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161)
Ticket Required
Members
$12.00
Nonmembers
$15.00
Add to Calendar 2024-10-19 15:00:00 2024-10-19 16:30:00 Aida Returns 10/19/2024 3:00pm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston tickets@mfa.org America/New_York public

Directed by Carol Mansour (Lebanon, 2023, 75 min.). Arabic, English, and French with English subtitles.

This documentary follows filmmaker Carol Mansour’s multifaceted journey of memory, loss, and return. Monsur’s mother, Aida, struggles with Alzheimer’s and often retreats to memories of her childhood home in Yafa, Palestine. After Aida’s passing, Mansour enlists friends in Beirut to help return her mother’s ashes to Yafa. This intimate film captures the efforts of a diverse group of friends and strangers who come together to complete this deeply personal yet universal journey, serving as both a tribute to the lost past of the director’s family and a nod to the exiled Palestinians denied the right to return home, even in death.

Watch the trailer.

Preceded by:

Mawtini (My Homeland)
Directed by Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller (Canada, 2023, 19 min.). Arabic and English with English subtitles.

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

Watch the trailer.

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Wheelchair accessible

With English subtitles

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