USA
13′43″, 2021.
DIRECTED BY
PRODUCED BY
SCRIPTWRITER
CINEMATOGRAPHER
EDITED BY
Patil Khakhamian
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We Are is an autoethnographic documentary about the filmmaker’s decision to leave her Armenian diaspora community in Lebanon to search for a connection with her homeland.
While living in Armenia for the first time, Patil understands that the Motherland she and her community in Lebanon have been longing for is an idealized idea rather than a physical place, increasing her struggles with identity and belonging, and catalyzing her move to Brazil away from both her cultures.

Patil Khakhamian was born and raised in an Armenian diaspora community in Lebanon. In 2018, she started her four-year undergraduate degree in Colorado College where she was able to combine her two passions: anthropology and filmmaking, allowing her to tackle personal understandings of identity and belonging in her own cultures. Having lived in different environments has allowed her to connect with people from diverse backgrounds which she chooses to express through visual storytelling.