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Fadia’s Tree

Directed by: Sarah Beddington
Runtime: 1hr 22min Year: 2021
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Directed by: Sarah Beddington
Runtime: 1hr 22min Year: 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Topics: Sociopolitical

When Fadia, a Palestinian refugee in living in Lebanon, meets director Sarah Beddington, she challenges her to visit the place that Fadia cannot travel to, but longs for beyond all else - her ancestral homeland.

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. She challenges Sarah, the Director, to find an ancient mulberry tree that stands as witness to her family’s existence – with only inherited memories, a blind man and a two-headed dragon as her guides.

Spanning fifteen years, this story of a friendship that stays connected across a divided land and a fragmented people adopts a birds’ eye perspective to reflect on freedom of movement, exile and the hope of return.