Turtles Are Always Home

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Turtles Are Always Home, is a 2016 Qatari movie, directed by Rawane Nassif. with a runtime of 12 minutes.

Overview

Turtles Are Always Home is a profoundly personal documentary in which the filmmaker recounts a decade of near-constant displacement since leaving Lebanon in 2006. Moving through seven countries, ten cities, and twenty-one homes, she catalogues the intimate rituals of transience — sleeping in twenty-one beds, cooking in twenty-one kitchens, locking twenty-one doors behind her — packing everything she owns into two suitcases and a backpack. The film is a meditation on what home means when it is something you keep leaving behind, and on the strange grief of knowing that somewhere out there, someone else is using your bed and wearing your shoes. Tender, wry, and deeply moving, Turtles Are Always Home is a meditation on belonging, identity, and the particular loneliness of the permanently displaced.

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