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Life on Hold (2015)

Name: Life on Hold
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-03-22T12:56:38+01:00

Documentary | 100 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: Qatar

Directed by: Reem Haddad

This movie is not available on US streaming services.

Life on Hold plot

More than a million Syrians have fled to Lebanon, where they now make up a quarter of the population. In ten powerful internet videos by Al Jazeera, supplemented with a graphic representation of their escape route, we become part of their lives. Such as the young Mohammad, who works with his father in a shawarma shop and remembers the corpses he saw, and the boyfriend who died in a bomb explosion. “If only I had died.” An acclaimed poet sees among the refugees mainly people who have lost their purpose in life. As a former employee of the Syrian Ministry of Education, it is extra difficult for him to accept that his son is no longer going to school...