\u00bbIf we had not confronted the taboos of our present, my mother\u2019s stories would have been reduced to self-indulgence and nostalgia. And so my story telling film became a witness to a new story still in the making \u2013 a story about my family\u2019s efforts to once more climb the wall that unjustly insists on separating our principles from our humanity.\u00ab
\n\u2013 Nadia Kamel<\/p>\n
Mary Kamel \u2013 mother of filmmaker Nadia \u2013 has a complex family history, spread across the Mediterranean, with a multi-ethnic, multireligious and multi-lingual mix. She was born in Cairo as the daughter of a Jew and an Italian Catholic mother, and converted to Islam on marrying Egyptian author Sa\u2019ad Kamel. She is both Italian and Egyptian, but also a communist, feminist and pacifist. She tries \u2013 together with filmmaker Nadia \u2013 to explain to her grandson Nabeel (who is of Egyptian-Italian- Palestinian-Lebanese origin, with Russian, Caucasian, Turkish and Spanish blood) the family background of the past 100 years, including a trip, controversial among relatives, to visit her Egyptian-Jewish family in Israel, whom she hasn\u2019t seen since 1946 \u2026 A moving story about humanity, tolerance and diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20053,"template":"","movie_year":[160],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[363],"festival":[628],"class_list":["post-20050","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-160","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-focus-en-2012","festival-2012-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n