Screenings in Gipuzkoa of the film “Fadia’s Tree”

24.02.23

Amnesty International has organised various screenings in the province of Gipuzkoa over the coming weeks of the British film Fadia’s Tree (Sarah Beddington, 2021), winner of the Amnesty International Prize at the previous 19th Human Rights Film Festival, a documentary telling the story of a Palestinian woman exiled in Lebanon, who dreams of one day returning to her homeland.

The screenings will be as follows:

28 February: Beasain
Usurbe Antzokia / 20:15
(original version subtitled in Basque)

9 March: Zumarraga
Zelai Arizti Kultur Etxea / 20:30
(original version subtitled in Spanish)
Presentation and discussion with Beth Gelb, president of the Spanish Section of Amnesty International, and Mònica Leiva, a former Palestinian correspondent

10 March: Irun
Amaia KZ / 19:00
(original version subtitled in Spanish)
Presentation and discussion with Beth Gelb, president of the Spanish Section of Amnesty International

Fadia’s Tree

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies, Fadia, a Palestinian woman stuck in a Lebanese refugee camp, yearns for the ancestral homeland she’s denied. When introduced in a casual meeting to the director, Sarah, she challenges her to find an ancient mulberry tree that once grew beside her grandfather’s house in the historic Palestine, a tree that stands as witness to her family’s existence.

With only inherited memories, a blind man and a two-headed dragon as guides, Sarah sets out on her search to find the tree. This story of a journey lasting for 15-years, of a friendship that travels across a fragmented land and a divided people, reflecting on freedom (or not) of movement, exile and the hope of returning home.