Little Palestine, journal d’un siègeLittle Palestine, Diary of a Siege
Competing | Cercle d'or Meilleur documentaire
Sessions
| Sunday, 10 April 2022 | 18:30 | La Maison du Cinéma |
| Tuesday, 12 April 2022 | 18:30 | La Maison du Cinéma |
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Official Selection – Vancouver International Film Festival – 2021
Official Selection – RIDM – 2021
Official Selection – ACID Cannes – 2021
Interreligious Award – Visions du Réel – 2021
The district of Yarmouk (Damascus, Syria) sheltered the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018.
When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad saw Yarmouk a refuge of rebels and resistance, and set up a siege from 2013 on. Gradually deprived of food, medicine and electricity, Yarmouk was cut of the rest of the world.
Abdallah Al-Khatib was born in Yarmouk and lived there until his expulsion by Daesh in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015, he and his friends documented the daily life of the besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.
Hundreds of lives that were irremediably transformed by war and siege, from Abdallah’s mother who turned into a nurse taking care of the elders of the camp, to the fiercest activists whose passion for Palestine got gradually undermined by hunger…
A discussion led by Sylvana Douaihy will follow the screening
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