France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Documentary: Axel Salvatori-Sinz, "The Chebabs Yarmouk" (fr, it, pt)

en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Documentary:
Axel Salvatori-Sinz, "The Chebabs Yarmouk" (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]

This documentary is a dive into the daily life of a group of young adults in a Palestinian 
refugee camp in Syria, Yarmouk camp. Filmed between 2009 and 2011, before the Syrian 
revolution and the beginning of the civil war that still bruised the country every day, he 
has the face and often forgotten the fate of the Palestinian people since 1948: that of 
the exile-es, plow es of their homes and off their land by Israeli settlers with the 
blessing of Western powers. An injustice whose memory remains prégnant these young 
Palestinians. ---- The film follows a group of friends faced with some choices of life, 
the need to build a future in a space that offers them no. Yet we see in their daily 
moments of simple joy: songs evenings, teas made with friends on a terrace ... But this 
terrace offers a view of a shanty made of dilapidated buildings topped by a multitude of 
satellite dishes. In this environment, the start is the most natural solution, almost the 
only one they can look and realize that during filming one of the protagonists, went to 
study cinema in Chile, and another dream of get through an acquaintance, a visa to 
emigrate to Poland.

Shot clandestinely, the film provides little to see the camp space to focus on private 
spheres where successive pieces of life sensitively captured by the camera.

The film is especially significant by its epilogue, showing the fate of the protagonists 
of the film after the outbreak of civil war. A destiny of exile or death: the camp is now 
largely destroyed and its population grew from 250 000 to 18 000.

Vincent (G Paris-Sud)

Axel Salvatori-Sinz, Chebabs The Yarmouk, France, 2013, 1 h 18 in theaters.


http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Documentaire-Axel-Salvatori-Sinz