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Frontiers of dreams and fears
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Masri |
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years after the their forced departure from Palestine in 1948,
four million Palestinians are still living in exile. 350. 000
among them live in camps in Lebanon, having survived massacres,
states of siege, famine and unemployment. The kids of Chatila,
descendants of the survivors form the 1982 slaughter, witness
an unusual reality: a kind of “forsaken among forsaken”.
Nonetheless, Maï Masri’s gaze relieves them of their
squalor and desperation, in order that we can linger to observer
grace which flourishes even in a situation of urban decay and
also on the unmatchable beauty of those flowers blossomed in
filth.
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| Palestina
2000, 57' |
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Maï Masri
Palestinian director Maï Masri studied
Cinema at the University of San Francisco. Together with her
husband, cinematographer Jean Chamoun, she founded the MTC
company and Nour Productions. She directed the films: Children
of Chatila, Hanan Ashrawi, Donna del syo tempo, Les enfants
du feu. Always with Jean Chomoun she shot: Reves suspendus,
Beyrouth-Generation de la guerre, Fleur d’Ajonc, Sous
les decombres.
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