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.