A World Not Ours

Name: A World Not Ours
Genre: Biography, History, Documentary
Released: May 23, 2014
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 65

2014

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| Release Date: May 23, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family. Filmed over more than 20 years byA World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family. Filmed over more than 20 years by multiple generations of the same family, it is more than just a family portrait; it is an attempt to record what is being forgotten, and mark what should not be erased from collective memory.… Expand

Director: Mahdi Fleifel

Genre(s): Biography, History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Andrew Lowry

Feb 18, 2014

Offering a fascinating window into a world often distorted and oversimplified, this is informative, stimulating and moving stuff. Read full review

Diana Clarke

May 20, 2014

Fleifel gathers the messy detritus of everyday living, laughs at it, then shows the viewer what it means. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

May 22, 2014

Mr. Fleifel helps walk us through the history with an ingratiating voice-over that lightens the seemingly permanent clouds of a dire history. Read full review

Diego Semerene

May 21, 2014

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. Read full review

Time Out London Cath Clarke

Feb 18, 2014

In this heartfelt film, Fleifel shows us the human cost of the conflict. Read full review

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