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The Tower (12A) + Online ScreenTalk

SAFAR Film Festival

An animation of a man and a woman in front of a sunset, the man lays bricks on a wall whilst the woman watches on.

A beautifully animated film about a young Palestinian girl gathering her families memories in a refugee camp in Lebanon.

Wardi, an eleven-year-old Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Her beloved great-grandfather Sidi was one of the first people to settle in the camp after being chased from his home back in 1948. 

The day Sidi gives her the key to his old house back in Galilee, she fears he may have lost hope of someday going home. As she searches for Sidi’s lost hope around the camp, she will collect her family’s testimonies, from one generation to the next.

Norway, France, Sweden, 2018, dir Mats Grorud, 80 min

Event ends 8.10pm

Suitable for children 12+. The film includes occasional profanity and scenes of violence and war.

Guest on Zoom: Mats Grorud, Director
Guest chairing Q&A: Rabih El Khoury Curator

Cinema 2

Location
Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 are located on Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican’s Silk Street entrance. From Silk Street, you’ll see a zebra crossing that will take you across the road to the venue. 

Address
Beech Street
London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.

Mats Grorud

Mats Grorud is a film director and animator from Norway. During his childhood, his mother worked as a nurse in refugee camps in Lebanon. In the 1990s, Mats studied at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon while working as an English and Animation teacher in the Burj el Barjaneh refugee camp. 

Based on the testimonies of the friends he made there, archival research and his own experience of the camp, he created his first-feature film, The Tower.