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After her estranged Palestinian father passes away, Linda returns to her childhood home in Glasgow, one last time. When her 10-year-old self suddenly appears, she is guided deeper into her own memories and her family's past.
About the Filmmaker:
Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker, film programmer and PhD researcher based in Scotland. His work explores themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and archives. He has directed multiple short films that have screened in festivals such Sundance, IDFA, London Short Film Festival, True/False, Encounters, DocLisboa, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival etc. His most recent short documentary The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing was commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute and Screen Scotland, won best short film at IDFA and is nominated for a BAFTA 2025 and won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance 2025. His fiction film called The Key, a magical-realist short film supported by BFI Network and Screen Scotland, is currently starting its festival run.
- Year2024
- Runtime13 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Arabic
- CountryPalestine, State of, United Kingdom
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorTheo Panagopoulos
- ScreenwriterTheo Panagopoulos
- ProducerPenny Davies, Simone Pereira Hind
- CastSimone Lahbib, Abby Wallace, Firas Ibrahim, Habiba Saleh
After her estranged Palestinian father passes away, Linda returns to her childhood home in Glasgow, one last time. When her 10-year-old self suddenly appears, she is guided deeper into her own memories and her family's past.
About the Filmmaker:
Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker, film programmer and PhD researcher based in Scotland. His work explores themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and archives. He has directed multiple short films that have screened in festivals such Sundance, IDFA, London Short Film Festival, True/False, Encounters, DocLisboa, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival etc. His most recent short documentary The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing was commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute and Screen Scotland, won best short film at IDFA and is nominated for a BAFTA 2025 and won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance 2025. His fiction film called The Key, a magical-realist short film supported by BFI Network and Screen Scotland, is currently starting its festival run.
- Year2024
- Runtime13 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Arabic
- CountryPalestine, State of, United Kingdom
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorTheo Panagopoulos
- ScreenwriterTheo Panagopoulos
- ProducerPenny Davies, Simone Pereira Hind
- CastSimone Lahbib, Abby Wallace, Firas Ibrahim, Habiba Saleh