When Memory Betrays the Narrative is a reflective video essay rooted in writing as an act of survival and rupture. Emerging from an inherited wound rather than a lived one, the film traces a personal break from patriarchal and sectarian narratives of war. It moves through erased histories, institutionalized forgetting, and the silencing of women’s experiences, reclaiming memory as something carried in bodies, gestures, and unspoken testimony. By framing writing as a necessary betrayal of nostalgia, of communal myths, of the father figure, the essay proposes disloyalty to dominant narratives as the only ethical path toward truth, justice, and self-preservation.
Based on the text by Nour Hoteit: Writing the History of the Lebanese Civil War from a Gendered Perspective
