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AISHA’S STORY
Elizabeth Vibert, Chen Wang / 63 min. / 2025 / Canada / Spanish Premiere
Sustainable cooking 2026
Synopsis
“Food is the most precious part of Palestinian heritage.” Aisha Azzam and her husband started their family grain mill in Baqa’a refugee camp, Jordan, nearly 40 years ago. She safeguards the culture by milling the wheat and herbs essential to Palestinian cuisine. Through food, Aisha traces the story of Palestinian displacement, resistance, and rebuilding family and community in exile. Harvesting, milling, cooking, and feasts ground the film’s arc of displacement and steadfastness. In Aisha’s words, “Food is what keeps us together as Palestinians.”
About the film
DIRECTION: Elizabeth Vibert, Chen Wang
SCRIPT: Elizabeth Vibert
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Chen Wang
PRODUCTION: Salam Barakat Guenette, Elizabeth Vibert
EDITING: Chen Wang, Elizabeth Vibert
MUSIC: Basel Zayed, Ayn Trio, Shoko Inoue
Elizabeth Vibert and Chen Wang
Authors
Elizabeth Vibert has been working on a collaborative oral history project with Palestinian miller Aisha Azzam, her family and community members in Baqa’a refugee camp, Jordan, since 2018. Filming was carried out in the camp from 2022-24. Elizabeth’s first film (writer and co-producer, with director Christine Welsh) was The Thinking Garden (2017), which screened at festivals on four continents and was translated into German, French, and Arabic.
Chen Wang is an international award-winning photographer. As cinematographer and in other roles, Chen has worked on over 60 documentary, short, and feature films, music videos and commercials. Chen grew up in mainland China and now lives in Victoria, Canada. Co-producer Salam Barakat Guenette grew up in a Palestinian family in exile in Amman, Jordan. She earned an MA in history in Canada and her interests are in the intersections, rather than clashes, of cultures.
Filmography – Elizabeth Vibert
[2025] Aisha’s Story
[2017] The Thinking Garden
Filmography – Chen Wang
[2025] Aisha’s Story
