Children of Shatila
‘أطفال شاتيلا’
Year: 1998
Country: Lebanon
Type: Short
Form: Documentary
In 1982, Israeli-backed militia killed between 2,000 and 3,500 Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians in two days in Beirut's Palestinian Shatila refugee camp. Fifty years after the Nakba and sixteen years after the massacre, two children - Farah, age 11 and Issa, age 12 - use video cameras to tell their stories and the narratives of those living in the camp.
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