A World Not Ours

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A World Not Ours

2012

1h 33m

Documentary

Biography

History

Drama

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Three generations of a family live in exile in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon.

Charles Solomon

Los Angeles Times

10/30/2014

Although not a perfect film, "A World Not Ours" does turn faceless statistics about the plight of refugees into an immediate human tragedy.

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

05/22/2014

This affecting, humor-tinged debut feature from Mahdi Fleifel goes back to the old neighborhood in southern Lebanon: the refugee camp Ain al-Helweh, a Palestinian pocket of hemmed-in buildings and stifled hopes.

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

05/21/2014

2.5/4

Mahdi Fleifel's usage of a domestic archive of home-video images inherited from his father lends the doc a simultaneous sense of historical gravitas and intimacy.

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

02/12/2021

An extraordinary objectivity, in the best sense, pervades even the most personal elements of the narrative.

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Andrew Latimer

CineVue

03/07/2019

4/5

An expansive, eye-opening twenty-year picture of life in Lebanon's Ain el-Helweh. The result is a staggering depiction of resilience amidst a raging political and religious climate.

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Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

05/22/2014

Probably the only good thing to come out of the Palestinian dispossession is a long list of great films, and this is one of the greatest among them.

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Jill C

@Jillyn 01/20/2024

The ways living in a cage will twist you but still, reaching for the light.

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02/10/2014

Decades of family video show the human effects of living in a 60+ year old temporary refuge camp. Takes us inside a community that we usually see as a dot on a map - if we're aware of it at all.

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09/26/2013

A return to a refugee camp that the film maker grew up in shines a light on an unfortunate temporary situation that becomes permanent and how people adapt to that type of living. People spend their entire lives being trapped by circumstances.

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06/19/2013

I onda je Hico bija lud.

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12/30/2012

One of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Show us how life is in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon. A documentary that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you angry at the injustice.

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Synopsis

Three generations of a family live in exile in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon.

Director: Mahdi Fleifel
Producer: Patrick Campbell, Mahdi Fleifel
Screenwriter: Mahdi Fleifel
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Drama
Original Language: Arabic
Runtime: 1h 33m