Director’s Statemen
As a Palestinian filmmaker, I’ve always seen the camera as a means of survival, a tool to reframe our relationship with place, memory, and daily life under occupation. In this film, I didn’t just point the camera at Aisha, I placed it in her hands. She is the one who holds the story, the one who lives the everyday reality of a divided city. Aysha, a young girl growing up in Hebron under an apartheid system, records her life with a simple camera, one powerful enough to carry her testimony to the world. What she documents is not exceptional, but rather the repetitive rituals of siege: crossing checkpoints, enduring the noise that never sleeps, and holding on to dreams that refuse to die. I’m drawn to a kind of cinema that exists at the intersection of the intimate and the political, where we can speak truths that analysis cannot, I wanted this film to be a space where the voices of those rarely heard can echo, and where the image of Aisha and her camera continues to travel with us, because we, too, carry this memory wherever we go.