Twice Upon a Time

Twice Upon a Time

2016 · 74 min · Documentary

Niam Itani, a filmmaker and former child refugee herself, attempts to reconstruct, document, and even manufacture the meaning of childhood with 9-year-old Khalil, whose family fled Syria to the same small village where Itani's family once took refuge during the Lebanese Civil War in the 1980s.

Directed by Niam Itani

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