A 25-year-old Palestinian refugee on Monday won a United Nations competition with his short film based on the story of a Palestinian refugee family returning to their ruined home in a conflict-ravaged camp in Lebanon.
The film by 25-year-old Tahani Awad from Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon impressed the panel of judges with its powerful, yet understated portrayal of the experience of the family, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). UNWRA organised the competition to mark World Refugee Day.
“We invited young Palestinian refugees to show their talents, and to tell us about their world and their lives because the refugees, and in particular, our young students deserve a chance to speak to the world,” said Filippo Grandi, the UNRWA commissioner general, at a screening of the winning entries.
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Galliano to attend trial today
Nick Vinocur
PARIS
Fashion designer John Galliano will attend in person his trial on Wednesday over charges he hurled anti-Semitic insults at customers in a cafe in a series of outbursts that have wrecked a towering career.
Galliano, 50, was fired as creative director for fashion empire Dior in March after a video surfaced online showing him, apparently inebriated, telling a woman he “loved Hitler” and that her parents might have been gassed in a Nazi death camp. The video, filmed in December, sent shockwaves through the fashion world as complaints surfaced over two separate incidents of alleged anti-Semitic slurs by the British designer, which will be dealt with at Wednesday’s trial. —Reuters