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I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop

Original title: I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop
Year: 2017
Running time: 61 min.
Country: Lebanon
Director: Angie Obeid
Screenwriter: Angie Obeid
Cast: Documentary, Self: Nuhad Al Khoury, Angie Obeid
Cinematography: Angie Obeid
Producer: Beirut DC
Genre: Documentary | Immigration
Synopsis: Nuhad, a 53-year-old Syrian woman, had never left Syria until the war made her reconsider her existence in a country where she didn’t belong. In 2015, she made the decision to leave Damascus. Her destination was Beirut and Angie, a 27-year-old Lebanese woman – Nuhad’s son’s friend, the only possible host. Angie’s house becomes Nuhad’s refuge, an antechamber leading to indefinite asylum destinations. Angie observes the older woman projecting her own life onto the confines of the small apartment, and finds intersections between her own life and Nuhad’s: both are vainly trying to move out of their own walls to find the right place in which to exist. Unsatisfied, Angie is waiting as well, living vicariously through Nuhad’s experience.

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I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop

2017

Angie Obeid