Where Do I Belong?

Australia, 2007

Rita el-Khoury travels to Lebanon every year. She calls Australia and Lebanon her home but it wasn’t until she was caught in the middle of the 2006 Israeli bombing of Beiruit that she fully appreciated what that meant.

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Collection

In ACMI's collection

Previously on display

22 April 2019

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Credits

creator

Rita el-Khoury

producer

ACMI Digital Storytelling

production company

ACMI

Duration

00:02:34:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

2007

Appears in

Group of items

Stories from the Lebanese community: A Digital Storytelling project

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B2000924

Language

English

Audience classifications

ACMI classified

Mediatheque - all ages (ACMI classified)

Subject categories

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Beirut (Lebanon)

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Damascus (Syria)

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Emigration and immigration - Psychological aspects

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Lebanese - Australia

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Lebanon

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Bombing, Aerial

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → War

Biographical

Digital Storytelling

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Australia - Emigration and immigration

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Emigration and immigration - Psychological aspects

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Immigrants - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Lebanese - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Lebanon - Social conditions

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Group identity

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Identity (Psychology)

Places → Beirut (Lebanon)

Places → Damascus (Syria)

Places → Lebanon

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

DVCAM; Master

MOV file H264; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation

DVCAM; Sub-master

MOV file H264; ACMI External Digital Access Copy

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