watch TrailerTHE POEM WE SANG
a film by
Annie Sakkab
20 mins /
Experimental, Documentary
Canada, Palestine, and Jordan
THE POEM WE SANG is a 20-minute, color and black and white, experimental documentary that meditates on love and longing, the love of one’s family and the longing for one’s home, contemplated through overcoming the trauma of the loss of a family home and of forced migration, transforming lifelong regrets into a healing journey of creative catharsis and bearing witness.
Cast
- Celina Sakkab
- Hanna Sakkab
- Annie Sakkab
Crew
Screenwriters: Annie Sakkab and Paul Lee
DOP: Annie Sakkab
Editor: Annie Sakkab
Original Title: غنينا قصيدة
Production Company(ies):
Producer(s):
Production Company(ies):
B707 Productions Inc.
Producer(s):
Annie Sakkab
Paul Lee
- Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (World Premiere)
- Vancouver Short Film Festival
- Norway Short Film Festival (Kortfilm)
- Toronto Arab Film Festival
- Doc Edge New Zealand
- Hrask Novi Film Festival (Special Jury Award)
- Palestinian Film Festival – Nazra (Best Experimental Short Film)
- Cairo International Film Festival (Arab Premiere)
- Palestine Cinema Festival – France
- London Short Film Festival
- Spello International Short Film Festival – Italy
- Regensburg International Short Film Week – Germany
- Montenegro Film Festival
- Aegean Film Festival
- Tranås at the Fringe
- Cambodia International Film Festival
- Raindance Film Festival
- Festival Ciné-Palestine - Best Short Experimental Film
- Montenegro Film Festival Herceg Novi - Special Mention
- Trujillo International Independent Film Festival - Best Short Experimental Film
- Nazra Palestine Short Film Festival - Best Experimental Documentary
- Tehran International Short Film Festival - Best Experimental Short Film
- New Delhi Film Festival - Best Documentary Short Film
- Sundar Prize Film Festival-Best Short Film
- Cap Spartel International Film Festival, Tangier - Best Director
