Wendy Ide 

Fadia’s Tree review – moving documentary of Palestinian displacement

Film-maker Sarah Beddington accompanies a Palestinian refugee in Lebanonon on a pilgrimage to the home village she has never seen
  
  

Fadia, the Palestinian refugee at the heart of the film.
Fadia, the Palestinian refugee at the heart of the film. Photograph: Film PR handout undefined

The story behind this thoughtful and compassionate documentary dates back to a chance encounter between two women, 15 years before. One was the film-maker, Sarah Beddington; the other was Fadia, a Palestinian refugee living in Lebanon. A friendship developed, and Beddington agreed to make the journey that Fadia was prevented from taking – to the home village she has never seen, to find the mulberry tree that has taken on a totemic significance for generations of Fadia’s displaced family. Following directions from a blind man, and weaving in studies of migratory birds, Beddington’s journey carries a potent symbolic weight.

Watch a trailer for Fadia’s Tree.
 

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