An experimental film essay investigating the cultural importance of cinema. Interviewees describe from memory key moments from films once held in the Palestinian film archive, but missing since the siege of Beirut in 1982. The scenes are drawn and animated, and interspersed with the story of the archive.

Sarah says, 'It’s a film about reconstruction and the idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity - that cinema fuels memory. And about the vagueness, imperfect subjectivity of individual memory - the frustration of trying to see clearly.'

The illustrations will be drawn by graphic novelist Woodrow Phoenix, whose work includes the strips The Sumo Family, published in the Independent on Sunday, and The Liberty Cat, for Japan’s Morning magazine. His book Rumble Strip was published this year. Also collaborating on the production is Kate Daniels, lecturer in Arabic literature and cinema at Newnham College, Cambridge.