How do our memories shape our identity? What if they aren’t our own?
Through my work in conflict and post-conflict journalism, I have come to understand that most children are aware of their parents’ refugee experiences, no matter how traumatic. These stories take up residence in our psyche and create a visceral cognizance, a deeply empathic understanding of what our closest family members have endured.
Funded by Regent Park Film Festival’s Home Made Visible initiative, Arrival Archives will be a conceptual documentary, an archive of stories and imagery that shed light on the refugee experience.
Aim:
To honour the first-generation born here after such trauma and to highlight the journey of a vast swath of Canadian diaspora.
To explore our changing cultural landscape.
To hold space for those who have survived, and those who are on their way.
