My Paper Life (2022)

Name: My Paper Life
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-11-19T22:41:09+01:00

Documentary | 80 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 80 minuten

Country: Belgium

Directed by: Vida Dena

IMDb score: 7,3 (9)

Releasedate: 15 April 2022

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My Paper Life plot

During a drawing course, the Iranian filmmaker Vida Dena meets the Syrian Naseem, who has fled to Brussels with his family. She decides to film the family and lets the drawings they make together come to life in simple, but striking animations – with music by the artist Noma Omran, who also fled from Syria. Within the walls of the worn-out apartment, drawing is a way for the family members to process the war trauma. Dena zooms in on the adolescent daughters Hala and Rima, whose feelings and experiences are depicted in the animation through their cut-out drawings.