To You, Wherever You Are

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To You, Wherever You Are, is a 2001 Saudi movie, directed by Borhane Alaouié. with a runtime of 52 minutes.

Overview

To You, Wherever You Are is a Lebanese documentary by celebrated filmmaker Borhane Alaouié, made as he returns to Beirut after years in exile. The film functions as a letter — a response to the personal documentary letters he made in the 1980s during the height of Lebanon's civil war. Returning at the turn of the 21st century, Alaouié finds a city that has been physically rebuilt but emotionally hollowed out. His dreams of his homeland, nurtured in exile, collide with a reality that is both familiar and unrecognisable. The result is a lyrical and melancholic meditation on displacement, memory, and the paradox of being exiled in one's own country. Alaouié discovers that the reconstruction process has rebuilt the stones far more than it has healed the people.

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