Bitter Bread
Among the countless Syrian citizens who have fled their country, about one-and-a-half-million have relocated to neighboring Lebanon.In this patient, heart-rending portrait, Iraqi-born filmmaker Abbas Fahdel, director of the epic Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), settles in with a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, most of them children.
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Among the countless Syrian citizens who have fled their country, about one-and-a-half-million have relocated to neighboring Lebanon. In this patient, heart-rending portrait, Iraqi-born filmmaker Abbas Fahdel, director of the epic Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), settles in with a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, most of them children.
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- Release date
- Oct 1, 2019
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
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- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- France, Iraq
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