Jaddoland
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1h 31m
Directed by Nadia Shihab | 88 mins | 2018
“I don’t make art to make pretty things,” Lahib Jaddo tells her daughter, filmmaker Nadia Shihab. “I make it because it helps me understand my life.” In "Jaddoland," Shihab searches for deeper understanding of the diasporic experience of home through the making of this loving, sweetly ramshackle portrait of her mother, an Iraqi artist who emigrated to Lubbock, Texas decades prior.
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