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LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE

LITTLE PALESTINE, JOURNAL D’UN SIÉGE

By Abdallah AL-KHATIB

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Documentary - Completed 2021

A filmed diary of the daily life in the biggest Palestinian refugee camp – Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria and its besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.

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ACID 2021
Filmfest Hamburg 2021
Audience Award
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • LEBANON, FRANCE, QATAR
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 89 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Abdallah AL-KHATIB
    • Producer(s)
    • Mohammad ALI ATASSI (BIDAYYAT FOR AUDIOVISUAL ARTS), Jean-Laurent CSINIDIS (FILMS DE FORCE MAJEURE)
    • Synopsis
    • 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 as a refuge of rebels and resistance and set up a siege from 2013 on. Gradually deprived of food, medicine and electricity, Yarmouk was cut off from 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 were irredeemably transformed by war and siege – from Abdallah’s mother, who turned into a nurse taking care of the elderly at the camp, to the fiercest activists whose passion for Palestine got gradually undermined by hunger…
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