In the end, Amar understood that stories cross borders not because rules are broken but because humans will always find ways to share what moves them. The ethical path forward, he believed, required listening to those both sides often ignore—the small filmmakers, the volunteer archivists, the voice artists who lent their timbres so stories could be heard anew. He kept the Archive’s spirit alive in the faint, careful work of attribution, collaboration, and respectful adaptation—an imperfect chorus, learning to harmonize.