I'm Taking Nana Home

Mintaha Beca hasn't seen Lebanon in 25 years. At the age of 86, she sets off from her adopted home of New Zealand to visit her birthplace, following two decades of war. After flying into Beirut with her daughter and grandson, filmmaker Steve La Hood, she is able to laugh about demands to pay a film equipment tax at Beirut's airport. Having witnessed destruction and construction in the former 'Paris of the Middle East', the group set off for the nearby city of Zahlé, where Beca was born. There she is reminded that some things stay the same, and others are no longer hers to own.

She wants to see what remains of her country after 20 years of war. I'm going to take her home.

– Narrator Steve La Hood

Key Cast & Crew

Iain Gordon

Composer

Grant Atkinson

Camera

Steve La Hood

Producer, Narrator, Subject, Director

Ian Leslie

Sound Mix

Eugene Arts

Sound

Owen Ferrier-Kerr

Editor