Watan: Portraits of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Directed by: James L. Brown, Bill Irving Released: 2018 (educational) Year of Production: 2017 Running Time: 52 min  Language: Arabic, English Closed Captioned Subjects: Human Rights, Middle Eastern Studies, Immigration & Refugees     Synopsis Seven years. Six million displaced people. The biggest humanitarian emergency of our time. The Syrian refugee crisis remains at the forefront of the global consciousness: as statistics, as photographs, as a bargaining chip in international politics. But inside the camps real people settle in to a life in limbo. Watan (Homeland) explores two of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan - Zaatari and Azraq - along with neighbouring city Jerash, to paint intimate portraits of the men, women and children who have found themselves there. Through observation of daily life, Watan builds a simple yet powerful series of interwoven stories that go beyond the statistics to find the human heart of the refugee crisis.    These are stories of s