They Were Nomads | Walled Citizen preceded by They Were Nomads

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THEY WERE NOMADS

Documentary Short

Arabic with English subtitles

State of Palestine

Every morning, on a highway in the middle of the desert, Jamal waits for a ride to go to work. Ghadeer gets up before dawn to make bread and prepare breakfast for her five children. This Beduin family lives between Jerusalem and Jericho in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank in a shack rather than the tent their ancestors used to live in.

A unique portrait of an indigenous community whose voices are rarely heard.

Year
2019
Runtime
25 minutes

Director
Carlo Concina, Cristina Maurelli

2 films in package

They Were Nomads

A unique portrait of an indigenous community, the Beduin, whose voices are rarely heard.

Walled Citizen

A Palestinian filmmaker attempts to explore the planet as a backpacker defying the restrictions of movement imposed on him as a holder of one of the world’s weakest-ranking passports.

Closed captions available