Lamia Joreige's A Journey

Lamia Joreige is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work has been focused on the loss of the ‘truth’ in one’s own memory. As a consequence, finding out the truth is an impossible thing that can never be attained.
‘A Journey’ is a 41 minute essay film – documentary that Joreige release in 2006, one month prior to the Lebanese-Israeli war. The film was written, shot and directed by Lamia Joreige over a period from 1999 till 2006. The filmmaker shows how 3 generations of the Joreige family “position themselves vis-à-vis the Palestinian cause and the Lebanese war” .
At the beginning of the film, we understand that Joreige wanted to make a film about family, yet we fail to see how it is related to family. It is about family because the memories

So if they forget or die then wouldn’t that history die with them?
So if history is a period of time, a period of historical events that happens at a particular time, who said that they are not real if they are experienced by people. If history shapes the future, why their experiences can’t be considered or certified as history given that it changed their future.

STORY ANALYSIS
One has to take into consideration the story, which is how it is represented in the film.
Between 1910 – 2001 – it is the Journey of Tati Rose from the day she was born until the day she died along with the rest of the family; it is a journey to exile!
The film starts with Rose Kettaneh (Tati Rose), one of many brothers and sisters, who was born in Jerusalem in 1910, studied in the Dames de Sion and later on moved to Lebanon in 1930 when she got married to Alfred Kettaneh. Meanwhile, we see pictures of how Jerusalem was before 1948 and the Nakba.
The scene allocated to Tati Rose at the beginning of the film, duration of almost 3:30 minutes, this is somehow the start of it all the establishing events of the