Letters from Yarmouk

Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi, himself a refugee, spent 8 months from February to November 2014 Skyping with Palestinians trapped in the once-thriving, now besieged Palestinian refugee camp al-Yarmouk on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria. This moving film chronicles messages captured in moments of extreme complexity; messages siding with life in the face of death; moments of love in a time of war and questions of homeland and exile. The film is a story within a story that is told through still and moving images, through voices and scenes that intertwine, painted with hope for a better life.