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The Kingdom of Women/ Transit Cities
Mamlakit Al Nisa'a Ein El Hilweh (The Kingdom of Women: Ein El Hilweh)
Dahna Abourahme
Documentary | Lebanon | 2011 | 54 min.
The story of the women of Ein El Hilweh refugee camp between 1982-1984 is an important chapter in the history of Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon. After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the camp was destroyed and its men imprisoned. Weaving between past and present, animation and daily life, it documents the community and organizing spirit of the women during this period, how they were able to rebuild the camp, protect and provide for their families while their men were held captive, and honors how women continue to contribute to the survival of the Palestinian community in exile.
Transit Cities
Mohammad Hushki
Feature Film | Jordan | 2010 | 71 min.
Laila, a thirty something year old woman who is running away from a life of disconnection and emptiness abroad simply wants her old world back in Amman, Jordan, yet 14 years changed everything. Unannounced and uninvited Laila attempts to construct a new life, but her simple old town is now a complex entity, a city that is being torn apart by forces of religion from the right and globalization from the left. Can she survive in this new city...or will she have to go back where she came from? Yet if home is not there nor here, where is it?
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LocationWriters Guild Theater
135 S. Doheny Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
United States
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