FATIMA, or notes on the possibility of permanent revolution returns to a moment in Lebanese history where a social revolution could have happened-but was thwarted by the outbreak of civil war in 1975. Searching in today's Lebanon for Fatima Khaweja, a 19 year-old girl killed by the Lebanese army during a worker's strike at Gandour chocolate factory in 1972, the film asks Why the Revolution never Happened, and what hope is there for change today?

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FATIMA has been developed with the support of the Doc Station at the Berlin Talent Campus 2012, and the Doc Med Middle East Documentary Production Workshop 2011-2012.
The film's production is supported by the Busan Film Festival Asian Documentary Fund, US National Science Foundation, Screen Institute Beirut, Beirut Film Station and Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie.