Canadian Premiere
Haunted by a recurring dream of her grandfather turning the soil of her childhood home, director Ghinwa Yassine heads back to Aadchit, a small village in the south of Lebanon, to find her memories changed by the war.
A Dream Pointing to Aadchit evokes a personal and poignant perspective of the sacred responsibility we have to the land and bears witness to the devastating impact of foreign state violence.
Hassan Yassine, Hala (Umm Hussein) Atoui, Abu Hussein Atoui, Fatmeh Yassine
Canada/Lebanon
2025
In Arabic with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Producer
Ghinwa Yassine, Zeina Badran
Screenwriter
Ghinwa Yassine
Cinematography
Ghinwa Yassine, Karim Ghorayeb
Editor
Deena Charara
Ghinwa Yassine
Ghinwa Yassine is a Lebanese-Canadian anti-disciplinary artist, art educator, and cultural producer based on the unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people, also known as Vancouver. Her work includes film, installation, performance, sound, sculpture, and text, and her embodied interdisciplinary practice is speculative feminist auto-theory. Yassine was awarded the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities in 2023, and she is a three-time nominee for the Lind Prize at Polygon Gallery. Her works have been exhibited in the Netherlands, Lebanon, the UAE, Canada, Iran, and Croatia.
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