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| A fine poster for Mahdi Fleifel's A World Not Ours |
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The story of a Palestine refugee camp in Lebanon, Ein el-Helweh, told through the documentarian's personal perspective as an expatiate Palestinian, who has spend holidays his whole life in the camp visiting his trapped family there.
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| The documentarian Mahdi Fleifel's father points down to the small refugee camp Ein el-Helweh, where about 60-70,000 Palestinians have lived for decades and still live |
Documentarian Mahdi Fleifel (Xenos (2014) short doc.) shows great handling of his sizable material, gathered through decades, of both personal family history, camp history and Israel-Palestine history in general. The film offers great insight into the Palestinian struggle and its development in the several decades since the country's overtake by the Jews following WWII.
Especially in the beginning, Not Ours is quite humorous, but soon its incredible sadness (which seems inherent in the telling of the Palestinian story) breaks through. The modern story of Palestine is very, very sad.
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| My favorite person in A World Not Ours, the documentarian Mahdi Fleifel's grandfather |
A World Not Ours is a great documentary and a fine and touching human portrayal, especially of the desperate men that make up so much of the Palestinian people. Their profound disappointments and aggressions as refugee camp people for most if not all of their lives, is indeed a scary picture of despair.
A World Not Ours is a deeply personal cry for the Palestinian cause, which, unfortunately, doesn't point to any solutions for the future of the people.
That would be my only critique of it.
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
Watch the film's fine trailer here
Budget: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
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What do you think of A World Not Ours?
Is there a solution to the Palestinians' struggle?
Where should this people live?
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