14 minutes
Leila Almawy
2020

Screens with: Brown Bread & Apricots, Something from there, The Beautiful Room is Empty

Rumaan follows the story of a pomegranate tree that was planted in Canada, grown from seeds that were transported from Haifa, Palestine by Mamdouh El-Kassem when he and his young family were forced to flee the Nakba in 1948. Mamdouh's son Zaki El-Kassem speaks about his decades-long attempts to preserve the tree and its seeds.

Co-presented by LIFT and Trinity Square Video

LEILA ALMAWY

Leila Almawy is an Arab-Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto. Her films centre the voices of marginalized peoples with a focus on the racialized experience, identity, im/mobility, displacement and systemic Islamophobia as part of the Canadian experience. Her forthcoming film is a documentary about Canada's No-Fly List Kids.