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“Within this figurative and literal wasteland; Jamal’s quest takes place. Jamal’s tale of displacement is not an isolated story; ideally, his story opens up the understanding of the stories of the people he meets on his journey. Together they form a landscape that shows the uprootedness of a region, a belonging that is being disrupted.”
Mathijs Poppe
“Shatila was site of a horrific massacre during the Lebanese Civil War in the early 1980s. ‘I think when you are making a film like this, I think it is very important to be aware of the past and certain triggers…in a certain way, it could be very easy to talk about the massacres in a film, but Shatila is always approached from this angle – [and] is much more than this event,’ the director reflects. ‘There were many films that were made about this massacre before. For this film and the one we made before, there is a certain wish from [our] side to look at the future and not open the wounds always from the past.’
Geoffrey Macnab
