Born Out of Death
Monica Maurer
1981
West Germany, Palestine
9’
A political poem dedicated to the 300 children, women and men killed, and to the more than 1000 Palestinians and Lebanese wounded, during the Israeli air raid on the overpopulated Fakhani quarter of Beirut on July 17, 1981. Filming in the days following the massacre, Monica Maurer shows the people’s suffering and pain. She addresses the systemic causes of violence, drawing on the history of the country and formulating arguments for the necessity of a fight for liberation.
With the support of Fondazione Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico