About FADIA’S TREE:

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. She challenges Sarah, the Director, to find an ancient mulberry tree that stands as witness to her family’s existence – with only inherited memories, a blind man and a two-headed dragon as her guides. Along the way, director Sarah meets with ornithologists whose observations on the homing instincts of the birds inadvertently reveal the unresolved problems of the region.

Spanning fifteen years, this story of a friendship that stays connected across a divided land and a fragmented people adopts a birds’ eye perspective to reflect on freedom of movement, exile and the hope of return.

Fadia’s Tree filmmakers Sarah Beddington and Susan Simett met in 2016 at the Birds Eye View Filmonomics training programme and Fadia’s Tree was born. We’re pleased to support the film’s release and to host a conversation with director Sarah Beddington following a screening of the film at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse on Wednesday 10th August, 6.15pm