For Dabis, a Palestinian American filmmaker best known for his 2009 debut Amreeka and as an actor, for her work on Ozark and Only Murders in the Building, the story is deeply personal, inspired by her father’s exile in 1967 and his lifelong grief over a homeland he could visit only on a foreign passport.
She spent years “marinating” the script before finally writing it in 2020. Financing came together quickly and she was ready to shoot, on location in Palestine, when October 7 happened. The war in Gaza upended the production, which ended up moving to Cyprus, Jordan, and Greece, with cast and crew working in “a state of total crisis.
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