Aqabat Jaber: Passing Through

Aqabat Jaber: Passing Through

81 mins | Documentary | Jan. 2, 1987

Aqabat-Jaber is one of the sixty Palestinian refugee camps built in the Middle East by the UN at the beginning of the 1950s. Filmed in 1987, a few months before the Intifada, this film tells the story of a disinherited generation brought up in the nostalgia of places they never knew and which no longer exist. The story of a temporary solution that became a permanent way of life.

Aqabat Jaber: Passing Through

81 mins | Documentary | Jan. 2, 1987

Aqabat Jaber: Passing Through
Aqabat-Jaber is one of the sixty Palestinian refugee camps built in the Middle East by the UN at the beginning of the 1950s. Filmed in 1987, a few months before the Intifada, this film tells the story of a disinherited generation brought up in the nostalgia of places they never knew and which no longer exist. The story of a temporary solution that became a permanent way of life.
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Original title Aqabat jaber: Vie de passage
Directors Eyal Sivan
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