
Keywords
- Award Winning
- Einhundertvier
- Politics: Human Rights
- Topic: Refugees
- bittersweet
- family
- mec film
- middle east
- migration
- politics
- refugees
Actors
- Mahdi Fleifel
Director
- Mahdi Fleifel
Documentary, Independent
1h 33min
16+
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For little Mahdi, the Palestinian refugee camp Ain El-Helwe is a huge adventure playground. Unlike for most of his family.
For little Mahdi, the Palestinian refugee camp Ain El-Helwe is a huge adventure playground. Unlike for most of his family.
A passionate, bittersweet account of one family's multi-generational experience living as permanent refugees. A documentary filmed by an ex-resident of the camp.
Now a Danish resident, director Mahdi Fleifel grew up in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, established in 1948 as a temporary refuge for exiled Palestinians. Today, the camp houses 70,000 people and is the hometown of generations of Palestinians. The filmmaker's childhood memories are surprisingly warm and humorous, a testament to the resilience of the community. Yet his yearly visits reveal the increasing desperation of family and friends who remain trapped in psychological as well as political limbo.