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Israeli director Danae Elon here explores the political conflict between Israel and Palestine in personal terms. After the Six-Day War of 1967, a Palestinian man named Musa knocked on the Elon family’s door looking for work. The Elons employed him as caretaker to their young daughter Danae, and he stayed with the family for 20 years, using the money he earned to send his eight sons to college in the United States. After September 11, years after the family had lost touch with Musa, Danae goes in search of him, though Another Road Home is as much about the Elons as it is about their relationship with him. When her quest takes her to Paterson, New Jersey, where some of Musa’s sons have settled, she finds that these men have as many questions for her as she does for them. "Why did you come on this search?", Naser asks. "How did you see my father as an Arab who came to your house?" In contrast to the passion and pain of Musa’s sons, Danae’s answers are empty and vague. (79 minutes)
BY NINA MACLAUGHLIN
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