The Tower

Based on interviews that the filmmaker conducted with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, The Tower follows Wardi, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl, who lives with her family in a refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Through the oral histories shared by three generations of her family, Wardi learns about the 1948 Nakba and how it violently displaced her family from their ancestral lands, suppressed their cultural identity, and dispossessed them of their political rights. Motivated by her great-grandfather’s now waning hopes of one day returning to their family home in Galilee, Wardi traces the memories, losses, and resilience of those in her community.