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Among the countless Syrian citizens who have fled their country, about one-and-a-half-million have relocated to neighboring Lebanon. In this patient, heart-rending portrait, Iraqi-born filmmaker Abbas Fahdel, director of the epic Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), settles in with a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, most of them children.
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[Sheffield/Docs] The camera shows coexistence from the perspective of refugees and their administrators. A look that remains distant, without the usual manichaeism. Interesting is the portrait of administrators trying to be understanding in front of the camera, but at the same time subjecting refugees to mounting debts that mark an unpromising future. Manichaeism is not necessary when the approach is honest.