The United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR) in cooperation with The Royal Film Commission (RFC) invite you to attend World Refugee Day Film Festival between 21- 23 June 2009, screening will take place at 8 pm at the RFC building in Jebel Amman – 1st Circle.
Sunday 21 June 2009
“Errant Home” by Nada Doumani, 19 minutes, Documentary, Arabic, with English subtitles, 2008.
Errant Home is a film about exile and longing for home. It is an impressionist portrait of Iraq through the eyes of four well-known Iraqi artists and intellectuals: an Iraq of culture, art, diversity, tolerance, daily pleasures, perfumes and food. An Iraq lost for the time being, but not forever. Forced into exile, the protagonists – the sculptor Mohamad Ghani Hekmat, the artist Balasem Mohamad, the journalist Maysoon Al-M ousawi and Amal Al-Khodairy patron of the arts – talk, remember and dream of return.
“New Year Baby” by Socucheata Poeuv, 74 minutes, Documnetary, English, 2009, winner of eight international awards
Born on Cambodian New Year in a Thai refugee camp, Socucheata never knew how she got there. After her birth, the family left the past behind and became American. Her parents hid the story of surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide. In NEW YEAR BABY, she journeys to Cambodia and discovers the truth about her family. She uncovers their painful secrets kept in shame which also reveal great heroism.
Monday 22 June 2009
“Until When” by Dahna Abourahme, Arabic with English subtitles, 2004.
During the second Intifada, the filmmakers Dhana Abourahme, Annemarie Jacir and Suzy Salamy lived in the Deheisha lived in the Deheisha Refugee camp near Bethlehem from 2002 till 2004. The result is an incredibly poignant & intimate documentary following four Palestinian families struggling to survive.
They talk about their past & discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and hope. Until When paints an intimate in-depth portrait of Palestinian lives today.
Annemarie Jacir, who produced this film, will present it and discuss it.
Tuesday 22 June 2009
“God Grew Tired of Us” by Christopher Quinn, 89 minutes, Documentary, English, 2005, Winner of four awards
In 1987, Sudan’s government intensified its war against its dissident South: 27,000 boys fled to Ethiopia on foot. In 1991, they were forced to flee to Kenya; 12,000 survived to live in a U.N. camp in Kakuma. Archival footage documents the 1,000 mile flight. We see life in the camp and follow three young men who resettle in the U.S. They all work several jobs, send money back to the camp, search for relatives lost in the civil war, acclimatize to the US, seek an education and miss their homeland.
