A Scent of Mint (movie)
- Production country: Canada
- Producer: Pierre Sidaoui
- Production companies: ONF | NFB
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/1/2002
- Run time: 47 min.
Movie description
This documentary recounts filmmaker Pierre Sidaoui’s immigration journey from the small Lebanese town of Abey to Montreal, the city he now calls home. Sidaoui had a carefree childhood, but civil war forced him and his family to flee Lebanon in 1982, the first in a series of moves that would ultimately separate him from his parents, brother and sisters. Two decades later, Sidaoui pauses to reflect. His precious family photos, carefully kept in a shoebox, bring forth a flood of memories - of family, landscapes, music and war. A touching meditation on the pursuit of happiness and the immigrant experience.
