Refugee camps, 1970 (16mm negative, 2K/Sound scan)

Location: Various, Jordan Creator: Luigi Perelli An investigation among Palestinians in refugee camps in Jordan. The documentary illustrates the living conditions of refugees; it describes the dramatic daily effort - which has lasted for years - to resist despair, underdevelopment, marginalization, misery, exploitation; it highlights the hope that exiles have of returning to their land. 01. Interni, pp of a widow, surrounded by her children, who talks about the living conditions in the refugee camp and the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people 02. Inq miscellaneous and pp of children in the camp 03. Camera car from a racing car of the landscape of the Karameh region 04. The images flow on refugee camps in Jordan, with shots taken by a moving vehicle, and alternate with portraits of Palestinian elderly and children living in the camps; total of the Palestinian flag waving at the top of a pole against the background of the sky. Panoramas of tent cities in refugee camps with shots of scenes from everyday life: women at work in small gardens and tents, filmed while cooking, caring for children, cultivating the land; men engaged in building construction activities and carpentry work; children caught while playing in the street 05. Injured in hospital beds 06. The rubble of the 1967 war; refugees cross a destroyed metal bridge over the Jordan 07. Al Fatah Assembly in a Field 08. Camera car on Karameh field 09. Al Fatah demonstration; military training 10. Footage of Al Fatah guerrillas in surveillance activities and participating in the rally of a representative of the movement. Details and details of the faces of the Palestinians participating in the rally, including numerous women; Pp of the speaker, pan on the audience 11. Rally in the refugee camp organized for women. Very close ups of the faces of women and girls who listen to the speaker during the rally. A little girl intervenes screaming slogans, some women wipe their tears moved. Some women dance a traditional dance 12. The flag-raising ceremony 13. External and later internal filming of the activities of a health clinic, organized by Al Fatah. Portraits of sick or injured children being rescued and medicated. Filming inside a large medicine depot in Amman, organized by the “Palestinian Mazzaluna”, established in 1969. A dentist is filmed extracting a child's tooth 14. Night, Fedayn marching in the field 15. Shooting in a room where some men are busy recording, listening, transcribing, monitoring news from the Israeli press and mass media or other countries