Ibrahim: A Fate To Define

Production year: 2019
Country: Syria/Palestine
Director: Lina Alabed
Producer: Rami el Nihawi

The father of filmmaker Lina Al Abed was a member of the Abu Nidal Organization, a Palestinian militant group. His children don’t know exactly what his involvement was, and they were always told that, if anyone asked about him, they should say that he was “away on business”. In 1987, when Lina Al Abed was six years old, her father suddenly disappeared without a trace. Everyone assumes he was murdered, but the facts of the case aren’t known, and the family never discusses it. Al Abed decides to make this film to break the silence and find answers, and at least in part to gain an understanding of the impact her father’s disappearance had on those he left behind.