The Jacket

Mathijs Poppe | 2024 | 71 min | Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Libanon | Arabic

The jacket is a portrait of Jamal Hindawi, a Palestinian man who lives in exile with his family in the Shatila Refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Together with his friends, he makes political theater about their profound connection to their homeland, Palestine, and their situation as refugees in their country of residence, Lebanon. When Jamal embarks on a journey to find an important lost theater prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

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