‘Rafea Solar Mama’ Screening at the 2013 Beirut International Film Festival

Join the 13th edition of the Beirut International Film Festival as it hosts a screening of “Rafea Solar Mama,” directed by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim.

Synopsis:
Rafea is a Bedouin woman who lives with her daughters in one of Jordan’s poorest desert villages on the Iraqi border.

She is given a chance to travel to India to attend the Barefoot College, where illiterate grandmothers from around the world are trained for six months to be solar engineers. If Rafea succeeds, she will be able to power her village, train more engineers, and provide for her daughters.

Even when she returns as the first female solar engineer in the country, her real challenge will have just begun. Will she find support for her new venture? Will she be able to inspire the other women in the village to join her and change their lives? And most importantly, will she be able to re-wire the traditional minds of the Bedouin community that stand in her way?