General information

Call No.:

350-4-5:6/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-4-5 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Lebanon

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #6 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009984

Date of production

1998

Date

1998

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Arabic, English

Duration

50 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

Shatila camp first became known after the Sabra-Shatila massacre in 1982. Located in Beirut's "belt of misery," the camp is home to 15,000 Palestinians and Lebanese who share a common experience of displacement, unemployment, and poverty. Fifty years after the exile of their grandparents from Palestine, the children of Shatila camp attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming realities of being refugees in a camp which has survived massacre, siege, and starvation. The filmmaker focuses on the lives of two Palestinian children: Farah, age 11, and Issa, age 12. Given video cameras, the two record the realities of their daily lives and their history.

Context

Associated Names

Chamoun, Jean Khalil (Producer)

Masri, Mai (Director)

Nour Productions (Producer)