Children of Shatila

Farah and Issa, two children living in Beirut’s Palestinian Shatila refugee camp, use their imaginations and creativity to come to terms with the realities of growing up in a refugee camp that has survived massacre, siege, and starvation.
The filmmaker gives Issa and Farah a small video camera to film their lives and learn how they see their own world. Both children start asking their elders how they feel about forcibly leaving Palestine. When queried about what he wants to tell the new generation of Palestinians, an old man asks that Palestine must never be forgotten. “Promise me that,” he tells the children.

“Children of Shatila” -produced in 1998- commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba and explores how memory is passed on from generation to generation through the eyes of Palestinian children born in exile.

Film screened in partnership with Aswat Festival.
”Aswat” is a festival designed as a meeting space between research, sound and visual creation. It aims to present works made by and with researchers from all disciplines as well as documentary filmmakers working in and on the Arab world.
In order to give access to these productions to a broader audience, ”Aswat” is partnering with AFLAMUNA.online to screen two films presented during the festival.


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