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JADDOLAND explores the meaning of home and the search for belonging across generations. When the filmmaker returns to her hometown in the Texas panhandle to visit her mother, an artist from Iraq, she turns her lens on her mother’s increasingly isolated life, as well as the beauty and solace that emerge through her creative process. Soon, the filmmaker’s charismatic grandfather arrives, still longing for the homeland he recently left.  While the shadow of geopolitical and historical forces looms on the periphery, the filmmaker searches for unexpected moments of meaning in the everyday, subtly weaving threads between past and present, her mother’s work and her own. In doing so, she draws an artful and deeply intimate portrait of one family reimagining its relationships to the places they call home.



  • Year
    2018
  • Runtime
    90 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic, English, Iraqi Turkmen
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Nadia Shihab
  • Producer
    Nadia Shihab, Talal Al-Muhanna
  • Cinematographer
    Nadia Shihab
  • Editor
    Avrïl Jacobson
  • Sound Design
    Dan Olmstead
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