Abbas Fahdel returns to documentary after taking a break with his loving film YARA. And, as he did with his indispensable HOMELAND (IRAQ YEAR ZERO), he tackles a universe that we are used to seeing through the prejudiced lens of the news: a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon. Fahdel portrays a very difficult winter in which even the simplest of actions becomes impossible and, without resorting to exploitative images, he reveals the inequality that is expressed through everyday life. BITTER BREAD is a documentary that is simple in its appearance, but profound in its politics. Once again, children are the door that opens to this other world: many of them were born in these tents and make up a small universe that is parallel to that of the adults. It is their faces that punctuate the story; a powerful decision in a film that, rooted in the present, fearlessly questions the future.

*in the presence of the director

*بحضور المخرج