Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege

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When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad saw Yarmouk as a refuge of rebels and resistance and set up a siege from 2013 on. Gradually deprived of food, medicine and electricity, Yarmouk was cut off from the rest of the world.

Abdallah Al-Khatib was born in Yarmouk and lived there until his expulsion by Daesh in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015, he and his friends documented the daily life of the besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.

Hundreds of lives were irredeemably transformed by war and siege – from Abdallah’s mother, who turned into a nurse taking care of the elderly at the camp, to the fiercest activists whose passion for Palestine got gradually undermined by hunger.

This screening is part of the Militant Palestinian Cinema... In a Day programme, presented by Saeed Taji Farouky. You can purchase tickets for the full day event here.

Saeed Taji Farouky, a Palestinian - Egyptian - British filmmaker, has been making films around themes of conflict, human rights, and colonialism since 2005.