Drawing from film excerpts, Azza Chaabouni will engage in dialogue with filmmaker Lina Soualem about the multifaceted writing processes in her documentary creative approach. The discussion will illuminate the back-and-forth movement between various stages of writing: textual work, filming, and editing .This non-linear process weaves time between the present and images of the past, composed of familial and historical archives. 

Throughout this session, the filmmaker will reveal how she sought to reawaken the intimate memories of her loved ones to reclaim their/her story, undertaking the urgent task of addressing issues of colonial trauma, exile, and transmission through creative writing and the construction of imaginary territories. 

Through her films, she brings visibility to intimate memories that resonate with collective memories of a community, a people, invisibilized, uprooted, marginalized beings deprived of their identities, and constantly compelled to reinvent themselves in perpetual exile.