Farah and Issa are two children trying to accept their bitter reality as refugees residing in the Shatila camp, which was subjected to massacres, siege, and starvation.

Director Mai Masri provides a small video camera for Issa and Farah to film their lives with their own vision. Both children ask the older generations how they feel about their forced departure from Palestine, and what is their message to the new generation. An old man answers that Palestine must never be forgotten, addressing the children: “Promise me that.” .

“Children of Shatila” - produced in 1998 - commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948 and examines the transmission of memory from one generation to another through the eyes of Palestinian children born in exile.

This film is screened in cooperation with the Aswat Festival. The “Aswat Festival”
constitutes a forum between the world of research, the world of audio-visual creativity, and the general public, and aims to showcase and discuss works produced by researchers from all disciplines and documentary filmmakers working in/on the Arab world. In order to provide access to these productions to a wider audience, “Aswat” is collaborating with Aflamuna.Online, where two films will be shown on the site simultaneously with the festival’s session.