Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, a retired Sudanese singer tries to make amends, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.
Aida Returns
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- BAM Film 2024
Aida Returns is a sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of multiple journeys: the journey of loss as director Carol Mansour’s mother struggles with Alzheimer’s disease; the journey of losing a parent; and the ultimate journey involved in Aida’s return to Yafa, where she would finally find rest. Mansour documents her process of engineering the return of her mother’s remains to Palestine, aided by friends and strangers—a journey both private and universal, in acknowledgment of personal loss and of affirmation to exiled Palestinians forbidden to return home.
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