Refugee life through a child's eyes in Lebanon | Documentary short film (2020)

Описание: While living in a deserted valley in eastern Lebanon, seven-year-old Rahaf describes the wonders of her past, present and future – without knowing the limits of her own imagination.

This documentary was selected at the Tampere Film Festival and Brest European Short Film Festival.

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Behind the tragedies and horrors of the refugee camps, there are sometimes glimmers of joy or hope. Rahaf, a 7 year old Syrian girl, is one of them. Despite fleeing with her family to Lebanon after their home was bombed in Adra, Syria, in the midst of the civil war, the young girl has not lost her hope and joy. Although she has lost everything, her home, her country, her nationality, stateless in a country she doesn't know, stuck in an overcrowded and insalubrious camp, having only a tent as a refuge, she keeps smiling and projects herself in the future, as a doctor.
This documentary, filmed from a child's point of view through animation, offers a moving portrait of these children from the camps and in particular of the sparkling Rahaf.
The reality of the camps, that of the adults, of the war and its atrocities, the young Rahaf managed to escape by taking refuge in her imagination, she who likes to draw and rethink the world. Actually, drawing can be a way to heal, to talk about your traumas and to put words to them. But above all for Rahaf, drawing is a way for her to rethink her daily life, to find beautiful things far from her home, Syria and its olivers that are dear to her.
The documentary thus shows the power of the child's imagination that allows her to find a light in the midst of this chaos, and to still marvel at the beauties of this world on earth.

Original title - Al Jabal الجبل (The Mountain)
A film by Carolina Gómez de Llarena
France & Lebanon, 2020

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