Biography

Filmmaker, researcher and consultant Khadijeh Habashneh (former Abu Ali) began working with the Palestine Film Unit as a volunteer, moving on to working full time in 1974, when the film unit evolved into the Palestinian Cinema Institute (PCI). Between 1976 and 1982, she was the Head of the "Archive and Cinematheque" department at the PCI. She wrote scripts and directed two documentary films including Children Without Childhood, which is also known as Children Nevertheless, and Women from Palestine, which was lost during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. She was a founding member and worked as member of executive committee of the Genera...Read More