Movies: Oola Hajje

A Middle-Eastern country, at civil war. Amine, 10 years old, lives with his mother and infant sister in a makeshift home. Between bursts of machine gun fire, he survives. One day, tied to the foot of a carrier pigeon, he finds a tiny message scroll....

On the day of a father's unexpected death, six family members each seek ways to manage their grief. In the face of his sudden absence, the ordinary takes on heightened meaning. An ode to the beauty of life & death and the incomprehensible mystery of ...