The World in Film: House in the Fields

House in the Fields 

With filmmaker Tala Hadid

register at tinyurl.com/houseinthefields

Free screener link provided to all upon registration to view film on your own
30 registrants will get free streaming access to the film for classroom use.

Teachers are invited to view the film House in the Fields, then join filmmaker Tala Hadid and engage with fellow educators to consider the film’s classroom applications. Participants will get free access to view the film plus a viewing guide.

House in the Fields examines the life of an isolated rural Amazigh community in the south-west region of the High Atlas Mountains. The thousand-year history of the Amazigh in Morocco has been, for the most part, recounted, preserved and transmitted by bards and storytellers in oral form among Tamazight speaking pastoral communities.

Continuing this tradition of transmission in an audiovisual form, House in the Fields attempts to faithfully document and present a portrait of a village and community that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years despite being confronted with the rapidly changing sociopolitical realities of the country at large. The film follows the lives of certain villagers, most specifically two teenage sisters, one who must give up school to prepare for her wedding, and the other who dreams of being a judge.

This workshop is a collaboration between federally-funded National Resource Centers and Documentary Educational Resources (DER). This program was organized and supported by: UT Austin Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, in conjunction with DER.