TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 1

Aisha's Story
Screening with: Visiting the Dead

Duration: 62 min Director: Elizabeth Vibert and Chen Wang Genre: Documentary Year: 2025
Country: Canada, Jordan Languages: Arabic with English Subtitles

Description:
“Food is the most precious part of Palestinian heritage.” Aisha Azzam and her husband started their family grain mill in Baqa’a refugee camp, Jordan, 35 years ago. She treasures her role in safeguarding culture by milling the wheat, grains, and herbs essential to Palestinian cuisine. Through food, Aisha traces the story of Palestinian displacement and rebuilding family and community in a refugee camp. Harvesting, milling, cooking, and feasts ground the film's arc of displacement, steadfastness and resistance. In Aisha's words, “Food is what keeps us together as Palestinians.”
Aisha’s story intimately captures the loss, beauty, and resistance that define Palestinian lives.

Awards: Hot Docs 2025 (Audience Award); DOXA 2025; Amman Int’l Film Festival
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