Enter the world of the Jubran family, all lovers of music, and enjoy amazing performance. The father, Elias, an instrument maker; his elder son, Khaled, heads a music school; his daughter, Kamilya, a professional singer; his younger son, Rabea, whose passion is the bouzouq. The mother, Nuhad, worships at the Orthodox Church and aspired to be a singer. Their family home, where the parents still live, is in the Palestinian village of al-Rameh, the Galilee -- north Israel. 
 Telling Strings examines the unique beauty of the oud and the enduring strength of Palestinian musical heritage. What is necessary so that a culture – suppressed by the Israeli state – may continue to develop?
 The film will be followed by discussion, led by a Palestinian filmmaker, along with a musician. Organized by CanPalNet (Canada Palestine Support Network). The panelists are:

Marwan Hassan, born and raised in Nazareth, grew up in the same region and under the same conditions of imposed citizenship as Kamilya Jubran, the singer featured in “Telling Strings”. Marwan was educated in Nazareth and Jerusalem, and now is a professor of hydrology at UBC, specializing in water science and water conflicts, including those in Palestine.

Sobhi al-Zobaidi, a Palestinian filmmaker, artist and scholar, has produced a number of award winning documentaries, short fiction, art videos and multi-media installations. An active member of the new and independent film movement in occupied Palestine, he writes for the Swiss weekly WOZ on Palestinian culture and politics. After cinema studies at NYU, he is completing doctoral research at SFU on dispossession and memory. Sobhi has written lyrics for Kamilya Jubran.