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| Aisha's Story | |
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| Directed by | Elizabeth Vibert Chen Wang |
| Written by | Elizabeth Vibert |
| Produced by | Elizabeth Vibert Salam Barakat Guenette |
| Starring | Aisha Azzam |
| Cinematography | Chen Wang Isaac Hatfield |
| Edited by | Elizabeth Vibert Chen Wang |
| Music by | Basel Zayed Shoko Inoue Bashar Smairat |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | Arabic |
Aisha's Story is a 2025 Canadian documentary film, directed by Elizabeth Vibert and Chen Wang. [1] The film centres on Aisha Azzam, a Palestinian woman living in the Baqa'a refugee camp in Jordan, who runs a grain mill and preserves Palestinian culture among her fellow refugees by sharing food and stories. [2]
Vibert first met Azzam when she was in Jordan in 2018 screening her film The Thinking Garden. [3]
The film was screened in 2024 at the Toronto Women Film Festival, a University of Toronto competition for as yet unreleased films by emerging women filmmakers, where it won the award for Best Feature Documentary. [4] It had its official public premiere at the 2025 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, [5] where it won the Audience Award for Mid-Length Films. [6]
It was subsequently screened as the opening film of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. [7]
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