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

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

Oct 30, 2014

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

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.

May 22, 2014

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

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.

Rated: 2.5/4

May 21, 2014

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

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

Feb 12, 2021

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Andrew Latimer

CineVue

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.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 7, 2019

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Louis Proyect

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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.

May 22, 2014

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Jill C

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

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/24

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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I onda je Hico bija lud.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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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