The Way Home

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The Way Home, is a 2018 Lebanese movie, directed by Wael Kadlo. with a runtime of 65 minutes.

Overview

The Way Home is a personal documentary by Syrian filmmaker Wael Kadlo, who was born in Damascus in 1980. What appears on the surface to be a routine family visit — picking up his mother from Beirut's airport — quickly becomes something far more intimate as Kadlo turns his camera on the encounter and begins to ask his mother the questions that have long gone unvoiced. The film transforms a quiet reunion into a moving excavation of memory, identity, and the Syrian past, using the simple journey home as a doorway into deeper, long-deferred truths.

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