A Poem For My Country is a raw, heart-aching exploration of what it means to belong when the coordinates of "home" have been erased or rewritten. This program moves through the quiet friction of exile, beginning with a father and daughter’s disagreement over a vanishing orange grove in When Light is Displaced, a conversation that transforms a patch of land into a space for multigenerational contemplation. This search for connection continues in Where The Balloon Led Me, where a lonely young man in Kurdistan turns to ChatGPT and the magic of cinema to find a mother lost to death, while in Ruins, the narrative shifts to an experimental search for missing ancestral images through a single photograph of the Algerian landscape. The struggle for survival becomes more intimate and desperate in Carton City, as a family in Germany grapples with the suffocating weight of buried grief and the high price of starting over. This tension peaks in Simo, where a hunger for validation sparks a dangerous digital rivalry between brothers that threatens to shatter their family’s future.

Together, these five films capture the grit and poetry of the immigrant experience—offering a cinematic testimony to the shadows we carry, the legacies we fight to preserve, and the fragile, defiant ways we continue to name our own country amidst the landscape of displacement.