A World Not Ours

An autobiographic story on the turbulent years when filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel and his family were living in the Lebanese refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh. Occupying one square kilometre and built as a temporary camp in 1948, nearly 70,000 people continue to live there today in extreme conditions. Mahdi and Abu Eyad did not actually grow up together. Mahdi went to Denmark with his family when he was seven years old. But since then, he has made regular trips back to the Ain al-Hilweh camp where he finds Abu Eyad and his friends. And when filming the camp, the young football fans passionate about the World Cup, and Abu Eyad who cannot legally leave the camp, Mahdi Fleifel seems to realise that he is not just creating a personal diary, but that he is the witness of a deep transformation in these angry young men.