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OUT OF PLACE - OUT OF TIME is a compelling, intimate documentary that reveals the historical circumstances and the contemporary issues facing Palestinian refugees in Lebanon today. In 2003, an Australian named Stefan Markworth went to live in the Palestinian refugee camp of Bourj el Barajneh, in Beirut, Lebanon. There he began making his first documentary film. For six months Markworth lived amongst and interviewed people of different generations, working in English and Arabic. The resulting film takes the audience beyond media stereotypes to find out about the realities of the lives of ordinary people in camp. This is a world where cultural and communal identity, social and economic concerns, collective human rights and individual aspirations are all to some extent defined and conditioned by camp life. Despite being oppressed, denied their rights and living in limbo as refugees for more than 55 years, the people in camp express a spirit of resilience and a thriving, unique identity. This film invites the audience to share the experience of exploring this spirit.

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a film by Stefan Markworth