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DESCRIPTION:A dazzling act of first-person filmmaking, Mahdi Fleifel's A WORLD NOT OURS 
 immerses us in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh ('Sweet 
 Spring') in Lebanon. Hastily built in 1948, it now houses 70,000 refugees 
 in one square kilometre. Fleifel spent his formative years in the camp in 
 the 1980s before his family settled in Denmark, and for years he has been 
 returning and keeping a video diary. His conversations with the camp 
 residents offer an unfiltered take on life in Ain el-Helweh and the 
 inhabitants' grievances with Lebanon, Israel and their own political 
 leaders. At the heart of the film is Fleifel's relationship with his friend 
 Abu Eyad, with whom he shares an obsession with World Cup football and 
 Palestinian politics. But while Fleifel can visit the camp when he pleases, 
 Abu Eyad must remain - an inequity that makes their friendship both extra 
 precious and sometimes tense. Abu Eyad is Fleifel's access-point to parts 
 of the camp that few outsiders could ever hope to visit, and emerges as one 
 of the most vivid and fascinating personalities on view, along with 
 Fleifel's crusty octogenarian grandfather and his live-wire 
 uncle.\n\nFilmed over more than 20 years by multiple generations of the 
 same family, this film is more than just a family portrait; it is a 
 sensitive and illumination study of belonging, friendship, and family -- an 
 attempt to record what is being forgotten, and mark what should not be 
 erased from collective memory. Fleifel succeeds in telling an uplifting and 
 truly funny film about hope in a hopeless world.\n\n*Grand Jury Special 
 Mention Award, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film 
 Festival, Prague, 2013\n\n*Best World Cinema, Documentary Edge Festival 
 2013\n\n*Best Documentary prize at Abu Dhabi Film Festival, 
 2012\n\n*Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2012\n\n"A 
 daring and effective effort to humanize those perpetual combatants." -John 
 Anderson, Variety\n\nBenefit for Children in Palestine & Lebanon\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/11/18750679.php
SUMMARY:A World Not Ours Film Benefit
LOCATION:Berkeley City College\n2050 Center Street\nBerkeley, CA 94704\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/11/18750679.php
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