Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege: Now Streaming on Docuseek
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Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege
89 min. | Subtitled
A film by Abdallah Al-Khatib
"Al-Khatib’s brave debut shapes up as a love letter to his fellow citizens and their humanity amidst a profoundly inhuman situation."
Emiliano Granada, Variety
Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege is a filmed diary of daily life in the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018 – Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria, and its besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.

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.

Born and raised in the camp, director Abdullah Al-Khatib has documented the gradual destruction and final perishing of his home in this searing, unflinching feature documentary. Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege uncovers some of the most pressing – and immensely complex – issues surrounding the decolonization of Western cultural institutions and their self-understanding.

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…
Selected for the ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) program at Cannes, Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, from Lightdox, is now streaming exclusively on Docuseek for education.

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