The Tower

An useful film for discover and understand and feel. A family, a little girl and the history of her family, pieces of past and admirable meeting of stop motion and drawings and, not the last, a great portrait of war, forms of survive and the hope in its basic traits and nuances. Short, a lesson, real precious one, about what is important out of any form of illusion or ambiguity, impressive for gentle poetry and for profound wise storytelling.

A moving film about three generations Palestinians living in a refugee camp. It's about what it's like to constantly long home and to hope it will one day be possible to return. The story is based on interviews with real people in a refugee camp. People who usually do not have a voice and who finally get to tell the world what they've gone through. Wonderful 3D dolls and settings are combined with beautiful 2D flashbacks. An important movie!

The Tower uses the mode of animation to enter deep into palestinian reality. And it works. You get to know several animated characters who during the film seem to turn into persons. The modern history of Palestine is the background and the dynamo of the film. But the heartbeat is the daily life experiences of 4 generations of palestinians, with refugee camps as their base camp, as a provisional yet lasting home - living and loving, fighting and hoping. Hoping one day to be able to use the key they always kept, to get back into the house they once lost, and which someone occupied. So much pain, so much love, so much struggle for dignity and humanity. The animation gets right through to you, without any actors as mediators. Go see it, and contemplate it!

This film is about hope. Warda is a little girl looking for hope in a refugee camp and among refugees that been living in waiting condition more than 6 decades...in place where you think there are no hope... she mange to find it, somehow.

Beautiful, thoughtful and hopeful film, that without taking side, simply shows us how generations hold on to the hope for something better while living their lives for the generations to come.