The title “homemade” refers to the director’s situation in which he can no longer take a public action. He failed to secure production supports and lost his teaching position in the continuing chaos that followed the Arab Revolution. Also, the word “homemade” reflects the shared experience of losing cinema, as numerous cinema theaters have closed or have been destroyed in Syria and Egypt. The director lost his shared space and has been locked inside his “home.” On the other hand, “homemade” also means “making a home.” Realizing that he will not be easily returning home, the director decides to make the temporary shelter into his “home.” Finally, “homemade” means making a film with recorded images, a type of material that he has not considered, to create a new cinema different from the ones that have been brought to a halt. The director does not stop making “homemade.” This documentary, which started after the director lost his two “homes,” the space of family and the space of cinema, stares at the unresolved tasks of the society after the Arab Revolution through the question of what it means to us to lose cinema. Along the process, the film sometimes aimlessly floats among the lost things and at other times, it brings “home” to us in plain sight even though it is not before our eyes.​