The Wall by Mira Sidawi

Four teenage refugees, training as journalists in the Shatila camp in Lebanon, hatch a crazy plan to make a film that will convince Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd to reunite and play a concert in their camp. The film follows their hilarious and sometimes dangerous adventures, uncovering the complex layers of living as a refugee within the pulsing city of war-scarred Beirut, a crossroads for creativity, crime, and psychedelic transformations.

Mira Sidawi is an emerging Palestinian director and producer. In 2015, she directed her first short film, Four Wheels Camp, which discusses the graves where refugees seek to find burial outside a camp. She presently works as a broadcast journalist for Palestine TV, hosting a show called “A Taste of Laughing”. She has worked also as a drama therapist, empowering women who are located in the camp. She studied theatre at Lebanese American University and worked as a trainer in media workshops in Shatila camp. Her first novel, “Tell the Sleep to Sleep” has been translated into German and English and parts have been published for the Goethe Institute and the Palestinian Center of Research and Studies in Lebanon.

The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director.

The film will be screened in the presence of the YAP workshop participants, please reserve your seats as places are very limited.

Arabic with English subtitles.