Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Fadya Salah Al-Deen | 8 minutes

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My Children my love

Fadya Salah Al-Deen Documentary 2013 8 min

Rudaina Abu Jarad is the mother of two girls and two boys, despite her family and community at first objecting to her becoming pregnant because of her condition.

Biography
Fadya Salah Al-Deen is from Hizma, Palestine, and has trained with Shashat Women's Cinema. Her film credits include three documentary shorts and two fiction shorts: Rahaf, 4 min, 2008, fiction, (co-director).
The Shadow, 3:30 min, 2010, experimental. Just Forbidden, 5 min, 2011, fiction. This is the Law! 17 min, 2012, documentary, a Shashat Women's Cinema production.

My Children, My Love was screened at Shashat's 9th Women Film Festival in Palestine in 20 cities across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Permanent Delegation to UNESCO in Paris also screened it on the occasion of the UN International Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People. Over 700
people attended the screening.

"I was very moved by the simplicity and discretion used in the film to show us the tragic story of this woman. The film technique is very elegant and aims only at showing the optimism displayed by this mother who's bearing her child"
Mahmoud ben Mahmoud, MADE in MED jury member

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzPiRjAkoBc

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