I Am From Here, I Am From There: Writers in Exile

DCTV Firehouse Cinema

This program features several films that blend fiction and documentary practices, profiling writers living in exile from figures like Paul Bowles to James Baldwin and Mahmoud Darwish. The films explore the heterogeneous aspects of diasporic identity, with settings spanning Beirut, Paris, Istanbul, and Tangier. They generate connective threads that transcend time and space, complicating rigid notions of national identity and affirming the potency of the written word.