Aquí y allá
Where is home? In her studio the filmmaker investigates her migration-defined identity and family history using photos, maps and Google Earth.
21'
France
IFFR 2020
In the summer of 2019, Mahdi Fleifel went back to the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon to visit his friend Reda, who was also the subject of his previous film, A Man Returned. When Mahdi arrives, thousands of Palestinians have just taken to the streets to protest against discriminatory measures by the Lebanese government. A sociological meditation on the different ‘exits’ young Palestinians choose in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.
IFFR 2020
- 15'
- Denmark
- 2020
- Director
- Mahdi Fleifel
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Lebanon
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 15'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Arabic
- Producer
- Mahdi Fleifel
- Production Company
- Nakba FilmWorks
- Sales
- Square Eyes
- Screenplay
- Mahdi Fleifel
- Cinematography
- Mahdi Fleifel, Talal Khoury
- Editor
- Michael Aaglund
Also in this combined programme
A chuva acalanta a dor
Reason and passion clash in Lucretius' life. When he reaches an epiphany, perhaps it is already too late.
28'
Portugal
IFFR 2020
The Eyes of Summer
In a Sri Lankan hamlet a shy girl becomes friends with a spirit. Based on the filmmaker's mother's childhood experiences.
15'
Sri Lanka
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Mahdi Fleifel
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Lebanon
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 15'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Arabic
- Producer
- Mahdi Fleifel
- Production Company
- Nakba FilmWorks
- Sales
- Square Eyes
- Screenplay
- Mahdi Fleifel
- Cinematography
- Mahdi Fleifel, Talal Khoury
- Editor
- Michael Aaglund
Programme IFFR 2020
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
The power of short. Twenty-one films from the short film selection compete for one of three equal awards.
Read more about this programme3 Logical Exits
A claustrophobic sociological contemplation of the escape routes open to young Palestinians from their dead-end lives in refugee camps.
15'
Denmark
IFFR 2020
Aggregate States of Matters
Rosa Barba shows the slow disappearance of a glacier and its effect on the Quechuan population in the Andes of Peru.
18'
Peru
IFFR 2020
Apiyemiyekî?
An archive of drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, a people native to the Brazilian Amazon, document and narrate their encounter with 'civilised man'.
28'
Brazil
IFFR 2020