Alam Laysa Lana / A World not Ours

Year2012 Duration93 min. DirectorMahdi Fleifel WriterMahdi Fleifel PhotographyMahdi Fleifel

Producers: Mahdi Fleifel, Patrick Campbell
Editing: Michael Aaglund
Original music: Jon Opstad
Sound: Zhe Wu
Additional sound editing: Dominic Fitzgerald
Colourist: Monica Rubio
Additional photography: Mohamad Fleifel, Taleb
Fleifel, Said Fleifel
Voiceover recording: Dominic Rippel
Subtitles: Fayez Kanafani
Associate producer: Caglar Kimyoncu
Development producer: Purnima Ramadorai
 

A World Not Ours is an intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family. Filmed over more than 20 years by multiple generations of the same family, A World Not Ours is more than just a family portrait; it is an attempt to record what is being forgotten, and mark what should not be erased from collective memory.

Written, photographed, and directed by: Mahdi Fleifel
Producers: Mahdi Fleifel, Patrick Campbell
Editing: Michael Aaglund
Original music: Jon Opstad
Sound: Zhe Wu
Additional sound editing: Dominic Fitzgerald
Colourist: Monica Rubio
Additional photography: Mohamad Fleifel, Taleb Fleifel, Said Fleifel
Voiceover recording: Dominic Rippel
Subtitles: Fayez Kanafani
Associate producer: Caglar Kimyoncu
Development producer: Purnima Ramadorai

Spanish premiere

Mahdi Fleifel

Mahdi Fleifel (Dubai, 1979)

Mahdi FleifelHe is a Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist based in London. He was born in Dubai, raised in the Ain El-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon and later in the suburbs of Elsinore, Denmark. He graduated from the British National Film and Television School in 2009. His short films have screened at more than a hundred festivals around the world and have won many best film awards. A World Not Ours is his first feature film.

Philmography:

  • A World Not Ours (2012)
  • Four Weeks (2009)
  • Arafat & I (2008)
  • The Writer (2007)
  • Hamoudi & Emil (2004)
  • Shadi In The Beautiful Well (2003)

Contact details

Patrick Campbell
patrick@nakbafilmworks.com

Promoted by
Gobierno de Navarra
Organized by
NICDO
With the aid of
Con la financiación del Gobierno de España. Instituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales Acción Cultural Española Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia Financiado por la Unión Europea. NexGenerationEU
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