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Displaced Lives

2010 · 13 min

A quiet, sorrowful immersion in exile, drifting patiently through loss and memory rather than drama.

Directed by: João Marcelo Gomes
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Faez Abbas, Salha Nasser, Alessandro Nunes

Overview: Palestinians Faez Abbas and his wife Salha Nasser live forcibly displaced from their culture and family.

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Directed by: João Marcelo Gomes
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Faez Abbas, Salha Nasser, Alessandro Nunes

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
family
identity
memory
grief
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Tension	3
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Complexity	4
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: João Marcelo Gomes
Written by: João Marcelo Gomes
Starring: Faez Abbas, Salha Nasser, Alessandro Nunes, Mulsaf Cesar Zail, Jawad Kalil, Said Junior Kadan
Cinematography: Maurício Vianna Baggio
Runtime: 13 min
Country: Brazil
Languages: Arabic, Portuguese

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