Teta, Opi & Me(2018)

Name: Teta, Opi & Me
Director: Tara Hakim
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-01-01
Duration: 25 min
Cast: Gerlinde Abu Aitah, Tawfiq Abu Aitah

Gerlinde Abu Aitah Tawfiq Abu Aitah

Filmed entirely with an iPhone, Teta, Opi & Me is a tribute to conformity, tolerance and courage. It is a poetic, meditative, multilingual, and feeling-driven short film, documenting the intricacies of the artist’s playful process in capturing her grandparents’ enduring romance through social, political and racial adversity. He comes from Bethlehem, Palestine and she comes from Vienna, Austria. Incorporating poetic filmic scenarios, vérité scenes, interviews, and home movies, the work is an inter-generational dialogue that explores themes of family, love, and the intermingling of cultures.