Ali Al-Azhari

Filmmaker Avi Mograbi and his Arabic teacher and friend Ali Al Azhari go looking for the ruins of Ali’s village Saffuriya from which he was displaced during the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. Instead, they find a life that never ceased.

Fantasizes an 'Old' Middle East, wherein communities were not divided along ethnic and religious lines; a Middle East in which even metaphorical borders had no place