Aisha’s Story
- Elizabeth Vibert and Chen Wang
- Canada/Jordan
- 2024
- 63'
- 21st Edition
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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 grains and herbs essential to Palestinian cuisine. Through food, Aisha traces the story of Palestinian displacement and the rebuilding of family and community in a refugee camp. Her story intimately captures the loss, beauty, and resistance that define Palestinian lives.
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Elizabeth Vibert, writer, director, producer is also a professor of history at the University of Victoria whose research focuses on gender, poverty, colonialism, and food systems. She is director of the SSHRC-funded research project “Four Stories About Food Sovereignty: Transnational Crises and Local Action,” which uses documentary films as one element of knowledge mobilization. Her filmmaking (The Thinking Garden 2017) and writing projects examine women’s actions toward socially just and sustainable food systems in colonized contexts and in the era of climate crisis.
Chen Wang is an international award-winning photographer and cinematographer who grew up in China and now lives in Canada. As a cinematographer, a director and in other roles, he has worked on over 60 documentary, short, and feature films, music videos and commercials. He also served as director of production at the Cinevic Society of Independent