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Refugee Week 2026: A World Not Ours (15)

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As part of the 2026 Refugee Week , Pontio will hold a free screening of A World Not Ours, an intimate, humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family.

Filmed over more than 20 years by multiple generations of the same family, A World Not Ours is more than just a family portrait; it is an attempt to record what is being forgotten, and mark what should not be erased from collective memory.

Mahdi Fleifel, 2014, 93 mins

Thursday 18 June, 11am

FREE