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Jaffa La Mienne

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Jaffa La Mienne is a poignant story of one of the most beautiful and least known towns of the Mediterranean. The film treads in the footsteps of the historic families of the town of Jaffa – the Gargours, the Araktingis – who once possessed land and orange trees, and who live today in exile, in nearby Beyrut, or in distant Monte Carlo, Paris and London.

Fifty years after the Palestinian exodus, Jaffa remains a landmark for her exiled children. They come back timidly, if only to visit the garden of their family house – confiscated since 1948. They return to the Diaspora, their new homeland. Jaffa’s memories are those of ‘the years before the Catastrophe’ when life was prosperous and peaceful in a Mediterranean town surrounded by beaches and orange groves, of marriages among neighbours and cousins, of Sunday mornings in the thirty or so churches of every known denomination, of the evenings at the Alhambra cinema or at the Jaffa Tennis Club. The people who remain are trying hard to preserve their cultural identity and share a new sense of normality. This film brings to life a small, vivid, enterprising world that has remained silent until now.

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