The New World, Episode One
A melancholy song, full of hope and longing, reverberates in The New World, guiding us through the lives of Lebanese immigrants Amer and Sana Khaddaj. Ghalia Elsrakbi and Lauren Alexander use archival material to collect stories of ordinary people of Middle Eastern descent, bringing us a fresh look at what it means to be displaced.
Also in this combined programme
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Sewing Borders
Through personal tales of displacement, Beirut residents personalise different maps of the city and region by sewing borders onto them. -
Destination Nowhere
The Japan-born son of an illegal Thai immigrant faces deportation. Scratching into a silhouette on a photograph, a portrait is created and filmed in c -
Disintegration 93-96
Living in the USA illegally for over 20 years, Miko Revereza reflects on his family’s relocation from Manila to Los Angeles in this introspective essa -
Come to Me, Paradise
In this sci-fi documentary, a drone spirit is summoned to the heart of Hong Kong where Filipina migrant workers gather and make public space their…
Film details
- Countries of production
- Egypt, Netherlands, USA
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
