Makhdoumin
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For an estimated population of 4 million, Lebanon boasts some 200,000 foreign domestic workers, contracted under a system of full custodianship that deprives them of basic rights. Implemented since the start of the civil war (1975), this system is borrowed from similar ones in the Gulf countries. It is predicated on a transaction whereby the worker is not providing a service, but is rather commodified as a product, with specialised agencies organising their import under conditions not unlike modern-day outposts of slavery. Director Maher Abi Samra places his camera inside the offices of the El Raed agency with the full complicity of its owner Zein. Diligently, unobtrusively, he observes and probes. The components of this state-sanctioned system come undone methodically
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Maher Abi Samra Director · Claire Mathon Cinematographer
First release April 7, 2016 · Languages Amharic, Arabic · Original title مخدومين
Production
Orjouane Productions
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Languages
Original title
مخدومين
Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Amharic · Arabic
Release dates
Italy · April 7, 2016
Middle East Now
No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
April 16, 2016 · BAFICI - Buenos Aires Film Festival
Austria
October 21, 2016 · Vienna International Film Festival
Brazil
October 7, 2016 · Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
France
April 13, 2017 · Lyon Festival Cinémas du Sud
Germany
February 17, 2017 · Premiere
Poland
May 14, 2016 · Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
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