They Do Not Exist

Synopsis

Life in the Nabatia refugee camp in southern Lebanon, accompanied in voice-over by a letter written to a fedayeen (Palestinian fighter). A response to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir who declared that the Palestinian people did not exist.

Director Biography

Screenwriter and Producer Mustafa H. Abu Ali was born in 1940 in Jerusalem. He received his diploma in filmmaking from the London School of Film Technique (now called the London Film School) in 1967. He was an undergraduate student in the College of Architecture at Berkeley University between 1961 and 1964. He assisted Jean Luc Godard on his film From Here And There while shooting in Amman, Jordan, 1970.