Ahmad Al-Zu'bi

An uncovered archive recounts my childhood through sketches, scribbles, and a forgotten love poem.

Following the death of his parents, a man remains in the family house. There, he reveals to his son his late father’s journal, a record of the family’s life after the destruction of their village. As they flip through its pages for the first time, the family’s history unfolds, and together they summon his father’s spirit.

As the filmmaker returns to his childhood home, he observes the unoccupied rooms through the eyes of his mother after her first pregnancy three decades prior.

An uncovered archive recounts my childhood through sketches, scribbles, and a forgotten love poem.

An uncovered archive recounts my childhood through sketches, scribbles, and a forgotten love poem.

Following the death of his parents, a man remains in the family house. There, he reveals to his son his late father’s journal, a record of the family’s life after the destruction of their village. As they flip through its pages for the first time, the family’s history unfolds, and together they summon his father’s spirit.

Following the death of his parents, a man remains in the family house. There, he reveals to his son his late father’s journal, a record of the family’s life after the destruction of their village. As they flip through its pages for the first time, the family’s history unfolds, and together they summon his father’s spirit.

As the filmmaker returns to his childhood home, he observes the unoccupied rooms through the eyes of his mother after her first pregnancy three decades prior.