MOVIE NIGHT - fundraising to help communities in Syria

Charity event for raising funds to support the lives of Syrian refugees affected in the regions where the earthquake hit hardest. The funds raised will be donated to The White Helmets, a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping to rebuild after attacks.

SCHEDULE
18H: Welcoming & Introduction of the Movie
18:30H: Screening
19:30H: LIVE Q&A with Asmaa Rashed (film protagonist), Ghufran Abudayyeh (translator), Alejandra Alcala (film director) and Alex Garcia (film director of photography)

🎬 Home Storytellers

About the film:

War tragically pushed Asmaa out of her home country, Syria, where her destiny had been written as a wife and mother by the age of 16. Asmaa rebuilt her adult identity as the neighborhood storyteller using reading aloud to children as a bridge to tackle critical issues in her new community at Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.
Seven years later, with Asmaa’s first born daughter reaching adolescence, a flashback of her denial to education emerges and inspires her to lift up the lives of adolescent girls in her community by nurturing their sense of self- worth and their ability to determine their own choices. Despite her complex living situation as a refugee and female of a conservative community at Zaatari camp, she is determined to raise a conscious generation of confident, self- determined women.

Watch trailer here: www.theneighborhoodstoryteller.com