Traces of Home

I bawled for the majority of the runtime of Traces of Home, a filmmakers extraordinarily courageous effort to find healing for her immediate family by addressing generational trauma and having her entirely family go to where her mother and father are from, Mexico and…

Movie Good or Movie Bad?

got emotional multiple times at how seen i felt through the directors family dynamic ❤️ she captured being part of a latino/middle-eastern household so well and conceptualizing that through migration stories  the father reminded me so much of my dad, and it was beautiful…

kgures

At the post-screening Q&A, Traces of Home director Colette Ghunim was prompted to elaborate on what cultural memory means to the heart of her fantastic documentary. She proceeded at length to express how severely broken every member of a displaced or colonized group is…

berry 🐻

At first the film appears to be a reflection on exile and memory, the idea of a homeland and Ghunim’s attempt to reconnect with the cultures of her parents. But soon the film reveals itself to be a journey inward, for Ghunim and her family, as they work to patch their own…

Marya E. Gates

I really wanted to like this movie more than I did. The premise is really beautiful: you have a Palestinian father and a Mexican mother who experienced two completely different forms of displacement and then their two kids who are trying to understand the trauma their…

zentilex

I hope a lot of people get to see this. The vulnerability and truth to this was amazing to watch.

Rubens Lopes Schiozer

i've been feeling inspired to write letterboxd reviews for a while now — a way to capture my raw thoughts and feelings on a film as they happen. my friend osama (who writes the best lb reviews) was who i saw this with, and he's a big part of what pushed me to actually…

ayesha

“Intergenerational trauma” is a phrase that comes up often as a therapeutic buzzword, but less often is it talked about in systemic terms. When Colette Ghunim first encountered the term in therapy, she wasn’t necessarily thinking of it in those terms either, but gradually…

InReviewOnline

me as we pulled into the parking lot: oh this one will probably be sad but it won’t be like bawling level girl…………………………

jade