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The Power of the Creative Arts: This Film captures the work & experiences of participants engaged in an experiential workshop utilizing the creative arts within a therapeutic context. The workshop made use of projective techniques to explore the inner worlds of the participants. Key to the work was the process itself, a process that focused on creating a safe space to begin exploring the internal fabric of roles we play and the roles that shape the stories we tell ourselves and others.

July 14th, 2006
Israel launches a massive attack on Lebanon that ended in displacing more than one million persons. During the 33 days war some families take refugee in a theater in the capital city of Beirut. This film shows the transformative ability of the arts and its healing powers.

The Seasons of Janana film is a journey with children in active learning, fun and creativity. Janana is a campaign to develop child-friendly libraries and promote fun-learning and creativity in disadvantaged communities in Lebanon.

Artistic Works of Camps’ youth showing the unfamiliar in the familiar.

Films

• Haweyeh Zarqa – Video Clip : Eien el-Hilweh camp
• Lan Armosh: Kasmmeyeh Camp
• Why Not? : Shatilla camp
• Khattat : Al Baddawi camp & Nahr El-bared camp

Songs

• Tanhedeh Kelmeh : Borj el-barajneh
• Howeyeh Zarqa : Eien el-Hilweh camp

Through lively anecdotes and behind the scene accounts we get an inside view of the creative process that went into the making of the various films, animation and photo-essays produced by Palestinian children over the last 4 years as part of the Palestinian Youth Record their Lives and Express their Hopes Project.

A Palestinian family settles in a new exile in Lebanon after fleeing Kuwait during the Gulf War.

The children raised with the epic tales of thier grandfather’s heroism in the defense of Palestine,
finally meet him but only for one day, before he dies.

The young brothers try to transcend their predicament as refugees by spending their holidays productiviely, inspired by the girl that created beautiful ritual out
of the grandfather of her grandmother.

“I dreamt that my grandmother held me by the hand and flew with me to Palestine.” She looked down and said “This is our village my grandson.” I descended and she continued her flight.

Palestine grows roots with the forth generation of refugee children when the memories of the uprooting of 1948 become experiential learning activities for youth.

Their research & creative expressions become proactive resources for other children.

We’re deprived from playing because of the landmines, and our families are not
able to cultivate the land.” (Doha, 12-years old, from Aiyta el Shaab)

The young writers of the scenario enter the film as a group of friends whose day dreams become a reality. Mohammed, the journalist, covers the young photo-journalists’s exhibit in the camp, Rabab flies across all borders, Muna becomes a doctor, Walid finally sings on stage and Zeinab directs the film.

Scenario by the young Filmmakers:
Rabab Abdel Hadi, Zeinab Keizaran, Mohammad Azzouka, Muna Zaaroura, Walid Balqis

The reality of life in the refugee camps blocks the dreams of children and becomes a nightmare for Halim. He is thinking of leaving school to support his family, while his friends spend the vacation acting as fortune-tellers.

Scenario by the young Filmmakers:
Ahmed Al-Shouli, Bachir Hussein, Jamal Mohamad, Mohamed Halimeh