Screenings

‘Letters from Al Yarmouk’ at Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015

Since 2001, Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya has promoted Independent Lebanese and Arab films, and encouraged young talents to lend their imagination to the big screen.

This unique Arab film festival brings together over 200 professionals and students from Lebanon and the region, in addition to international professionals and stars. In additions to films, the festival hosts many workshops, roundtables and networking sessions.

About the Movie
The film is about camp letters from a refugee camp received in very difficult moments, messages that yearned for life while facing death, moments of love in war time and the concerns of refugees about homeland and exile. It is a story within a story that is told through still and moving images, through voices and scenes that intertwine, painted with hope for a better life – letters written by a film in a documentary style that resembles life.

About the Director
Born and raised in the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza strip, Rashid Masharawi is a self-taught filmmaker. His filmography includes Haifa, Laila’s Birthday, Ticket to Jerusalem and the documentary Live from Palestine. In 1996, he founded the Cinema Production and Distribution Center (CPC) in Ramallah, which organises workshops to help young Palestinian filmmakers. The CPC also initiated the Mobile Cinema, which brings screenings to refugee camps in the form of an annual Kids Film Festival.