Makhdoumin

At a glance

Makhdoumin, is a 2017 Saudi movie, directed by Maher Abi Samra. with a runtime of 67 minutes.

Overview

Makhdoumin is a Lebanese documentary by director Maher Abi Samra that exposes the kafala system binding approximately 200,000 foreign domestic workers in Lebanon — a country of 4 million — stripping them of basic rights under conditions akin to modern slavery. With the full cooperation of its owner Zein, Abi Samra plants his camera inside the El Raed recruitment agency, quietly and methodically observing how workers are commodified and imported as products rather than people. Rooted in Lebanon's civil-war-era policies and mirroring practices in Gulf states, Makhdoumin is a damning, rigorously observed indictment of institutionalized exploitation.

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