Ours is a Country of Words NEWNIEUW
a film byeen film van Mathijs Poppe

Filmed in Shatila, a refugee camp built in Lebanon when thousands of Palestinians fled their country in 1948. At an undetermined moment in the future, the refugees’ dream of returning to Palestine becomes a reality. 

© Ours is a Country of Words (Mathijs Poppe, 2017)

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