Bourj Stories

BOURJ STORIES PROJECT is a collaborative, ongoing film workshop and documentary, conceived and produced in collaboration between the Alsama Project in Beirut, Lebanon and Bugle Films.

A hybrid project that portrays Syrian refugee students in an observational documentary and at the same time integrates their stories and reflections on daily life through short films which they make. The filmmakers accompany the students – young teenagers who left wartorn Syria with their families and now live in a refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon – over a period of years. We see the students engaged in film development workshops where they learn to use camera and sound. We observe them in their school lives, in the camp and at home.

Co-directed with Nour Alkheder. Produced by Bugle Films and Alsama