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A Broken House
Directed by Jimmy Goldblum · 2020
Unable to return home, Syrian architect Mohamad Hafez pours his longing into meticulous miniature sculptures of Damascus, turning memory, love and loss into art that builds a pathway back.
A moving portrait of an exiled Syrian architect who rebuilds his lost Damascus in astonishingly detailed miniatures.
The Syrian architect Mohamad Hafez received a one-way ticket to the United States. Missing his homeland, he decided to create a stand-in, sculpting life-like miniatures of the Damascus cityscape he had left behind. "A Br
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