IFI & DAFF 2019: THE TOWER Director: Mats Grorud 74 mins, France-Sweden-Norway, 2018, Digital, Subtitled Book cinema tickets This film screened on Sunday 6th October 2019. Wardi, an eleven-year-old Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. Her beloved great-grandfather Sidi was one of the first people to settle in the camp after being chased from his home back in 1948. The day Sidi gives her the key to his old house back in Galilea, she fears he may have lost hope of someday going home. As she searches for Sidi’s lost hope around the camp, she will collect her family’s testimonies, from one generation to the next. Screening as part of the Dublin Arabic Film Festival 2019 October 4th to 6th. Director: Mats Grorud 74 mins, France-Sweden-Norway, 2018, Digital, Subtitled