Babylon

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): العربية (Arabic)
• Director(s): Youssef Chebbi, Ala Eddine Slim, Ismael Chebbi

• Duration: 2h 1min
• Music: Yazid Chebbi
• Similar To: Ghost Hunting, From Meir, to Meir
• Story:
  After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to neighboring Tunisia in search of a safe haven from the escalating violence. When a massive refugee camp was hastily constructed near the Ras Jdir border checkpoint in Tunisia, a trio of filmmakers carried their cameras in and began filming with no agenda. This on-the-fly chronicle of the camp's installation, operation, and dismantling captures a postmodern Babel complete with a multinational population of displaced folk, a regime of humanitarian aid workers, and international media that broadcasts its “image” to the world. Visually stunning and refreshingly undogmatic, Babylon reveals a rarely seen aspect of the Arab Spring.
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