Little Palestine
by Abdallah Al-Khatib
1st oct. at 5pm / preceded by Blind Spot
9 oct. at 4pm
Cinéma Le Mondial
Director : Abdallah Al-Khatib
Original screenplay : Abdallah Al-Khatib
Original music : N/A
Editing : Qutaiba Barhamji
Artistic advisor : Ahmad Amro
Sound design and mix : Pierre Armand
Sound editing mix studio : Studio Lemon
Color grading : Michael Derrosset
Production manager : Nora Bertone
Producers : Mohammad Ali Atassi, Jean-Laurent Csinidis
Production : Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts, Films de Force Majeure
L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (CNC, Institut Français), Fonds d’Aide à l’Innovation Audiovisuelle du CNC, la Région Sud, Sundance Documentary Grant, Doha FIlm Institute, MEDIA / Creative Europe, AFAC, Al Jazeera, Culture Resource (Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy), IMS, la Scam (Bourse Brouillon d’un rêve), la Procirep-Angoa, Studio Lemon.
Video
The district of Yarmouk (Damascus, Syria) sheltered the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018.
When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad saw Yarmouk a refuge of rebels and resistance and set up a siege from 2013 on. Gradually deprived of food, medicine and electricity, Yarmouk was cut of the rest of the world.
Abdallah Al-Khatib was born in Yarmouk and lived there until his expulsion by Daesh in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015, he and his friends documented the daily life of the besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.
Hundreds of lives that were irremediably transformed by war and siege, from Abdallah's mother who turned into a nurse taking care of the elders of the camp, to the fiercest activists whose passion for Palestine got gradually undermined by hunger…