“A man with no country, will have no grave in the Earth, I forbid you to leave.”
المخدوعون [Al-makhdu'un / The Dupes] (Tawfiq Saleh, 1972)
Nov
2
النَّكْبَة
The three men on top of the water truck (via). DP: Bahgat Heidar.
Starting over*
– opening quote (via)
A few years after the start of the Nakba, three generations hope to make a new life for themselves. In the steel belly of a water truck, the three men travel Palestine into Iraq, then crossing the desert towards the promised land, Kuwait.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way.