Bitter Bread

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Bitter Bread, is a 2019 Iraqi movie, directed by Abbas Fahdel. with a runtime of 87 minutes.

Overview

Bitter Bread is a documentary from Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel, director of the acclaimed epic Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), focusing on the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon. Of the roughly one-and-a-half million Syrians who fled to Lebanon, Fahdel embeds himself within a tent community in the Beqaa Valley, where most residents are children. Patient and deeply human in its approach, the film avoids sensationalism and instead offers an intimate, heartbreaking portrait of daily life in displacement. A quiet but powerful work of documentary cinema about survival, childhood, and the lasting cost of conflict on the most vulnerable.

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