Watermelon Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to topical documentary “Traces of Home,” which John Leguizamo (“The Menu”) and Melissa Barrera (“In the Heights”) have boarded as executive producers. The debut feature of Colette Ghunim world premieres at DOC NYC , where it competes in the official section.

Spanning five years in production, the doc traces Ghunim’s deeply personal journey of self-discovery as she seeks to reconnect her parents with the ancestral homes they were forced to abandon as children in Palestine and Mexico. Blending evocative animation with rarely seen archival footage, documentary is both a meditation on memory and an exploration of belonging, displacement and the quest to return home –both physically and spiritually.

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