Makhdoumin
Directed by Maher Abi Samra17 februari 2017 67mDokumentär
7.75.0
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 specialized agencies organizing 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.
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Makhdoumin was released on 17 februari 2017.
Makhdoumin was directed by Maher Abi Samra.
Makhdoumin has a runtime of 67m.
Makhdoumin was produced by Jinane Dagher, Eirin Høgetveit, Camille Laemlé, Serge Lalou, Sabine Sidawi-Hamdan, Ida Ven Bruusgaard.
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 specialized agencies organizing 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.
Makhdoumin is a Dokumentär film.
Makhdoumin has an audience rating of 7.7 out of 10.