Colette Ghunim looks at the history of her family. Her mom is from Mexico and left because of domestic violence. Her dad is from Palestine and was moved by the Israelis. As she gets to know the history of the family, she plots to take her parents home to the places they came from years before.
What starts off as a kind of run of the mill family documentary gets better as it goes on as the cliches of these sorts of films are overtaken by the history of the family. Not just the lives of her parents, but her brother and the extended family which is why it blossoms. You have to stick with the film for a bit before things get interesting, but once you do this film really shines. There are stories here and sides of life that we don't get to see on screen.
If you want to see something you haven't seen before, give TRACES OF HOME a shot, just give it about 20 minutes to find its footing.
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