Saba - سابا

27/08/2025

Saba’s Journey: expats.cz

🍀 A puppet’s journey through exile 🍀

Before the final screening on Sunday, audiences will see Saba’s Journey, a live puppetry performance by Palestinian scenographer and DAMU student Jeries Abu Jaber. The interactive work tells the story of Saba, a man forced to flee his Bethlehem home in the late 1940s, who returns decades later after a life in exile in Chile.
Abu Jaber, who also works in Palestinian hospitals as a medical clown, created the character during the Covid-19 pandemic as a way of countering isolation. “I also made it resonate with my own family background,” he explains. The performance draws on his personal history while exploring the broader Palestinian experience of exile, displacement, and the right to return. 🫂❤️

Three days of screenings, markets, and live performances at Edison Filmhub highlight voices and traditions from the Middle East and North Africa this week.

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I long for my mother’s bread,
My mother’s coffee,
My mother’s touch...
Childhood grows inside me,
Day upon day,
And I love my life because
If I died,
I would shame my mother’s tears!

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