A director's near-death obsession: 37 years filming two families scattered by history.
After a near-death experience due to an aneurisma, director George Sluizer felt he had to go on filming and started research for a project he had in mind for a long time. It became the documentary HOMELAND, the fourth of a series about two Palestinian families he followed since 1974 in "Land of the Fathers", "A Reason to go" and "Adios Beirut". HOMELAND is also a personal film about his motivation, his relationship with the members of the two families who became very close. They are now scattered around the world, unable to return to the homeland. It is also an historical saga about the Palestinian people and their struggle for land and dignity.
Direction
Sluizer's 37-year commitment defies documentary norms.
Editing
Seamless weaving of four decades of footage.
Director
George Sluizer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sluizer's four-film series spans from the optimism of post-1974 Palestinian nationalism through the shattered Oslo years to permanent diaspora.
Made between his Hollywood thriller 'The Vanishing' (1993) and its disastrous American remake, this was the project he 'had to' return to.
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