Home Movie on Location

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Home Movie on Location, is a 2025 Egyptian movie, directed by Viola Shafik, and starring Onsi Abou Seif, Viola Shafik, Daoud Abdel Sayed. with a runtime of 100 minutes.

Overview

Home Movie on Location is an autobiographical documentary that interrogates the nature of memory, identity, and displacement. The film questions how family recordings — recreated in studio settings — become intimate sites of memory shaped by transnational identities, rapid socio-political upheaval, and the erasure of personal places. Exploring the way migration, whether internal or cross-border, emerges as an almost inevitable consequence of these pressures, the documentary weaves personal narrative with broader cultural reflection on belonging and loss.

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