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Roundabout Shatila (Dawar Shatilah) by Maher Abi Samra. Lebanon, 2004, 52 min, VHS New York première Time races and stands still like a treadmill of false hope in Shatila, the Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut. Ubiquitous arrows pointing nowhere direct the viewer to the unsettling truth: the residents of the camp seem to be going every which way but out. Palestinian refugees have lived in Lebanon without any basic civil rights, hanging eternally between a vanquished past and an infinitely receding future. Shot with the patience and grace of one who clearly understands the temporal horizon of waiting, this film brilliantly evokes the predicament of the Palestinian refugee perhaps better than any other. In Arabic and English with English subtitles. Sat, Nov 5, 4:30,
Silver Center, NYU, 100 Washington Square East |
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Cast and Crew: Producer: Ibrahim el-Amin |
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Print Source: Les Films d'Ici - 12, rue Clavel - 75019 Paris |
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