belonging tells a very personal story in which loss is a repeating theme. Told by two generations of director Tariq Nasir’s family members, belonging recounts the deep-rooted attachment to one’s land, the loss of an ancestral home, and the experience of becoming refugees.

In the U.S., the director’s mother’s family is made homeless by the Great Depression. In Palestine in 1948, his father’s family is driven from their ancestral home at gunpoint. In 1967, the saga continues with the next generation caught up in the refugee chaos of a newly erupted war with Israel.

The wars of 1948 and 1967 changed the lives of Palestinian families like the Nasir’s forever—yet this is not a story of blame and bitterness, but a human story, one of displacement and loss; a story of longing and belonging.

• belonging official web site