The “Our Home Cinema” platform, launched by the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth, has started showing 11 new films that address refugee issues and document their experiences with tales shared by international stars, such as actress Angelina Jolie, Ben Stiller, and other international movie stars.
The festival, which is affiliated with the Fann Foundation for Promoting and supporting media art for children and youth in the country, will host the platform's audience through the official website of the festival www.siff.ae for free, during the period from July 12 to August 12, where film lovers will be offered films from Canada, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Iceland and Kenya Syria, the United States and Egypt.
The platform shows, through its films, the harsh conditions experienced by the refugees and their families on a journey in search of peace, freedom and safety in their country, where the Lebanese film tells "Do you remember your childhood dreams?" The story of the child Razan, who lives with a large number of Syrian refugee children like her in camps and informal settlements for refugees in Lebanon, despite the harsh conditions and poverty, is still keeping her dreams, dreaming to return to her homeland, Syria, and to live in a house near her grandmother's house that she did not meet Never, ever eat until satiated, and become a doctor to treat patients.
From Ethiopia, the platform presents the movie "Nyahawk Challenge", which tells the story of a 16-year-old girl dreaming of becoming a plane pilot, but she cannot complete her primary school and has almost no chance to enter high school, as half of the children in the refugee camp in Gambella, Ethiopia Going to school and getting their most basic rights like education.
The short documentary "Refugee Center for Refugee Women in Kenya" tracks the lives of refugee girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa, and emphasizes the meanings of positive life, as girls prepare a fashion show every week that helps them enhance their strength, pride, and self-confidence when they walk on the fashion show , And the film documents the presence of Angelina Jolie, UNHCR's special envoy, for a weekly screening. Through the movie "A Safe Zone - After 4 years has passed", international director Marco Bollinger looks to us on a new visit to the "Saad Nile" camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, where he continues to organize workshops on storytelling and storytelling through video, and continues to teach girls Those who participated in the various workshops that he organized over the past four years. The new list on the platform includes the movie: "Spend a day with Burton", "Dream Diaries", "Sudanese refugee girl seeking to fulfill her dream in education in Egypt", "Syria: A girl distorted by war" and "Ivory Coast orphans overcome statelessness" and " A kidnapped Iraqi boy returns to his family in Canada.
The short documentary "The Refugee Refugee Center in Kenya" traces the lives of refugee girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa.
From Ethiopia, the stage features the movie "The Niahok Challenge", which tells the story of a 16-year-old girl dreaming of becoming a flying captain.