Aisha's Story
| Aisha's Story | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Elizabeth Vibert Chen Wang |
| Written by | Elizabeth Vibert |
| Produced by | Elizabeth Vibert Salam Barakat Guenette |
| Starring | Aisha Azzam |
| Cinematography | Chen Wang Isaac Hatfield |
| Edited by | Elizabeth Vibert Chen Wang |
| Music by | Basel Zayed Shoko Inoue Bashar Smairat |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | Arabic |
Aisha's Story is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Elizabeth Vibert and Chen Wang and released in 2025. The film centres on Aisha Azzam, a Palestinian woman living in the Baqa'a refugee camp in Jordan, who runs a grain mill and preserves Palestinian culture among her fellow refugees by sharing food and stories.
Vibert first met Azzam when she was in Jordan in 2018 screening her film The Thinking Garden.
The film was screened in 2024 at the Toronto Women Film Festival, a University of Toronto competition for as yet unreleased films by emerging women filmmakers, where it won the award for Best Feature Documentary. It had its official public premiere at the 2025 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Mid-Length Films.
It was subsequently screened as the opening film of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival.