James Elazzi

In multicultural Sydney, five diverse individuals navigate love, identity, and belonging while grappling with family expectations and societal pressures. Their intersecting lives reveal a complex portrait of modern Australia.

A grandmother teaches her granddaughter to cook a traditional Lebanese dish. As the recipe unfolds, so do layers of memory, with subtle flashes of Lebanon’s civil war interrupting the quiet of the kitchen.

Salifa and her mother, Marta, have left behind the chaos of the Lebanese civil war in 1977 to start anew in rural NSW, Australia. They struggle on a farm, until rumours start swirling about the discovery of gold on the farm.

Follows an older migrant woman who makes doilies and sells them at her local markets, one of the few places where she feels connected, useful and seen. When another woman begins selling doilies at the same market, that small but precious connection to the world is threatened.

Yannis, a first-generation Greek/Lebanese Australian teenager has been rejected by his family for being gay and now lives under a bridge, working the local beats as a sex-worker. Omar, his best friend, once in the same situation as Yannis, is now determined to better his life and begins to pull away. A portrait of culture, sexuality and isolation asks; where do we find refuge when the world seems to have forgotten us?

In multicultural Sydney, five diverse individuals navigate love, identity, and belonging while grappling with family expectations and societal pressures. Their intersecting lives reveal a complex portrait of modern Australia.

A grandmother teaches her granddaughter to cook a traditional Lebanese dish. As the recipe unfolds, so do layers of memory, with subtle flashes of Lebanon’s civil war interrupting the quiet of the kitchen.

A grandmother teaches her granddaughter to cook a traditional Lebanese dish. As the recipe unfolds, so do layers of memory, with subtle flashes of Lebanon’s civil war interrupting the quiet of the kitchen.

A grandmother teaches her granddaughter to cook a traditional Lebanese dish. As the recipe unfolds, so do layers of memory, with subtle flashes of Lebanon’s civil war interrupting the quiet of the kitchen.

Salifa and her mother, Marta, have left behind the chaos of the Lebanese civil war in 1977 to start anew in rural NSW, Australia. They struggle on a farm, until rumours start swirling about the discovery of gold on the farm.

Salifa and her mother, Marta, have left behind the chaos of the Lebanese civil war in 1977 to start anew in rural NSW, Australia. They struggle on a farm, until rumours start swirling about the discovery of gold on the farm.

Salifa and her mother, Marta, have left behind the chaos of the Lebanese civil war in 1977 to start anew in rural NSW, Australia. They struggle on a farm, until rumours start swirling about the discovery of gold on the farm.

Follows an older migrant woman who makes doilies and sells them at her local markets, one of the few places where she feels connected, useful and seen. When another woman begins selling doilies at the same market, that small but precious connection to the world is threatened.

Follows an older migrant woman who makes doilies and sells them at her local markets, one of the few places where she feels connected, useful and seen. When another woman begins selling doilies at the same market, that small but precious connection to the world is threatened.

Follows an older migrant woman who makes doilies and sells them at her local markets, one of the few places where she feels connected, useful and seen. When another woman begins selling doilies at the same market, that small but precious connection to the world is threatened.

Yannis, a first-generation Greek/Lebanese Australian teenager has been rejected by his family for being gay and now lives under a bridge, working the local beats as a sex-worker. Omar, his best friend, once in the same situation as Yannis, is now determined to better his life and begins to pull away. A portrait of culture, sexuality and isolation asks; where do we find refuge when the world seems to have forgotten us?

Yannis, a first-generation Greek/Lebanese Australian teenager has been rejected by his family for being gay and now lives under a bridge, working the local beats as a sex-worker. Omar, his best friend, once in the same situation as Yannis, is now determined to better his life and begins to pull away. A portrait of culture, sexuality and isolation asks; where do we find refuge when the world seems to have forgotten us?

Yannis, a first-generation Greek/Lebanese Australian teenager has been rejected by his family for being gay and now lives under a bridge, working the local beats as a sex-worker. Omar, his best friend, once in the same situation as Yannis, is now determined to better his life and begins to pull away. A portrait of culture, sexuality and isolation asks; where do we find refuge when the world seems to have forgotten us?