Dreaming Palestine: My Love Awaits Me by the Sea

  • Thursday, February 26, 2015 / 7:00 PM (PST)
  • Pollock Theater
  • Screening Format: Blu-Ray (80 Minutes)
  • With Mais Darwazah (Director)

How do you return to a place that only exists in your mind? My Love Awaits Me by the Sea (2013) is a poetic documentary narrating the story of the director Mais Darwazah, who takes a first time journey back to her homeland, Palestine. She leaves a secluded reality and follows a lover whom she has never met; Hasan, a Palestinian artist, who unveils a beautiful and utopian world to her. Fairytale and reality are woven together to question the elusiveness of place and the need to believe in dreams.

We were joined for a post-screening Q&A with Director Mais Darwazah, moderated by Nuha N.N. Khoury (UCSB Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture).

This event is sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center, the Mellichamp Global Studies Initiative, the Center for Middle East Studies, the Department of Film & Media Studies, the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, and the Department of the History of Art & Architecture.

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