A World Not Ours

Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
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Year of production : 2012
Format : Feature
Running time : 93 (in minutes)
http://nakbafilmworks.gb.net/a-world-not-ours/

Portrait of three generations exiled in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh in Lebanon, hastily built in 1948. It now houses 70,000 refugees in one square kilometer.

A World Not Ours Trailer 2013 from Nakba FilmWorks on Vimeo.

Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives. A World Not Ours won numerous prizes at festivals, notably the Peace Film Prize at Berlin 2013.

written, photographed, and directed by Mahdi Fleifel

producers: Mahdi Fleifel & Patrick Campbell

DCP - 93'

Country: Lebanon/Denmark
Production: Nakba FilmWorks/Patrick Campbell - Official Site
Year: 2012

Director: Mahdi Fleifel
Editing: Michael Aaglund
Cinematography: Mahdi Fleifel
Sound: Zhe Wu
Original score: Jon Opstad
Associate producer: Caglar Kimyoncu

Supported by:
FilmPro
Screen Institute Beirut
Abu Dhabi SANAD

World Sales:
Pierre Menahem
MPM Film (Movie Partners in Motion)
+33 6 62 08 81 79
pmenahem(@)mpmfilm.com

Summary for official catalogues

Dans ce journal en images, Mahdi Fleifel nous dresse avec sensibilité et humour le portrait intimiste de trois générations d'exilés dans le camp d'Ain el-Hilweh, dans le Sud du Liban, où il a lui-même grandit. Par un kaléidoscope d'enregistrements personnels, d'archives familiales en 8 mm et de séquences historiques, le film illustre la vie quotidienne de ces familles palestiniennes hors du monde, filmées sur 20 ans.