Bitter Bread

Among the countless Syrian citizens who have fled their country, about one-and-a-half-million have relocated to neighboring Lebanon. In this patient, heart-rending portrait, Iraqi-born filmmaker Abbas Fahdel, director of the epic Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), settles in with a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, most of them children.

• Release date
• October 1, 2019
• Runtime
• 87 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Abbas Fahdel