My Fantasia
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53m
An autobiographical film, "My Fantasia" tells of director Duki Dror's journey to his home, to his childhood and to his family. Spurred into motion by the First Gulf War, which forces him to return home from America, Dror comes home to find his Iraqi Jewish father in preparation to close the doors of the Fantasia menorah factory he has run with brothers for five decades. As Iraqi scuds fall on Tel Aviv, Dror attempts to reconstruct his family's narrative, one which disappeared in the silence and shame that surrounded the family's move to Israel. His relentless inquires eventually bring to light the story of his father's lost years in an Iraqi prison and the loss of the cultural world, language and ethnic traditions that the Darwish family left behind in Iraq.
Year: 2001
Languages: English, Hebrew & Arabic, English subtitles
Director: Duki Dror
Producer: Duki Dror
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