Scholasticide – The Story of Childhood Displaced |الإبادة المدرسية- قصة تهجير الطفولة
Country, year
Palestine – Gaza, 2024
genre
documentary
run time
12′
director
Ruwaida Amer
language
Arabic
subtitles
Slovene and English
about the film
The story of Sumaya Shamali, a girl from northern Gaza who works in education as a hobby because she sees the importance of science and building and developing children’s minds through education. She faces the difficult challenges of displacement, but she continues her work as a teacher in one of the educational tents and explains how education has been affected because she is a university student and because she is a teacher of children and because of the war.
about the author
Ruwaida Kamal Amer is a journalist, producer and director based in Gaza. A former science teacher, she has remained in Gaza with her family since the beginning of the war, documenting the ongoing conflict and its devastating impact on civilians.
Over the past eight years, she has worked as a freelance producer and director for several international news outlets, including Al Jazeera English, Euronews and ABC News. Her work has earned her prestigious recognition, including an Edward R. Murrow Award for a film produced for Al Jazeera English. Emmy Award for Abc news film.
Ruwaida also writes for platforms such as +972 Magazine in Israel/Palestine and La Repubblica in Italy, where she reports on the daily realities of life in Gaza under siege, the humanitarian crisis and the broader political landscape, bringing attention to stories often overlooked by mainstream media.
