The Camp

The film takes place in a Bedouin camp in the Syrian desert, South-West of Palmyra. It describes the way the Alaui family uses the camp in which it lives. The film relates a day among these Bedouins as an example of their everyday life: Hamida sweeping after the sand storm, Jassem preparing himself and his herd to leave for the day, Fawza helping in washing, Hmaid passing by on his way to fill water, Khaled assembling a car for his son…

Danielle Davie

Danielle Davie was born in 1980. She studied Sociology at the University of Tours. She graduated from the master course Anthropological Cinema and Documentaries at the University Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense. She has directed many films screened at many ethnographic film festivals. Now she co-directs a film about a female Ethiopian worker in Beirut. She is also on the point of submitting her PhD in Cinema and Visual Anthropology at the University of Paris 10 – Nanterre.