I Come From a Beautiful Place
Invisible Children
100% Asphalt

Arabic with English subtitles

Rating: PG

I Come From a Beautiful Place

Describes the lives of five refugees in Lebanon. One of them, Mohammad from Darfur, finds his three brothers and three of his sisters killed, his mother moments away from death. He decides to flee the conflict in Sudan and make his way to Lebanon, where he becomes one of the 9,000 non-Palestinian refugees and asylum seekers being cared for by UNHCR.

Invisible Children

One of the few films on child labor in Lebanon, provides a sensitive look into the tragic and triumphant lives of working children through personal interviews with the youth themselves. The young people take you on an emotional journey though their work, family lives and communities. Either invisible to the public eye or stigmatized as poor and uneducated, little has been previously known about their circumstances. Invisible Children explores the issues giving voice to the children usually ignored - not heard or seen.

They not only speak of their sadness but of their dreams and successes.

This film chronicles their stories, their work, their failures and successes. International Labour Organization (Lebanon).

100% Asphalt

A street tells its own story. A street that shelters more than 200 million children with only asphalt, noise and rage as their home. 200 million children in "100% asphalt". A film from the heart, in the heart of life, shot on the streets in the heart of the city; a film that narrates the unspeakable. 26 minutes of testimonies from abandoned children, left to their misery, violence and drugs.

  • Various Countries - 2006 - 2010
  • Documentary (approx. 30 minutes each)
  • Director: Carol Mansour
 

Film Schedule 2011

Friday October 21

Saturday October 22

Sunday October 23