This video essay examines post-war Lebanon as a terrain of fractured and competing memories, where personal experience and official history remain irreconcilable. Through the tension between intimate inherited narratives and politicized, sectarian accounts, the work approaches memory as a site of struggle where identity becomes both a passport and a sentence. By interweaving lived testimony with a critique of institutional amnesia, the film asks whether a shared memory is still possible, or whether Lebanon persists as a nation of parallel pasts, each carrying its own unfinished war.
Based on the text by Mohammad Khabbazeh: Collective Memory and Official History in Lebanon: A Struggle Over Narrating the Past
