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A WORLD NOT OURS

Alam laysa lana

Directed by Mahdi Fleifel
United Kingdom, Lebanon, 2012
Documentary
  • 9393 minutes

Synopsis

A portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, A World Not Ours is an illuminating study of belonging in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm.

Synopsis

A portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, A World Not Ours is an illuminating study of belonging in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm.