Title Content: Movie - The Immortal Sergeant - 2014

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After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to neighboring Tunisia in search of a safe haven from the escalating violence. When a massive refugee camp was hastily constructed near the Ras Jdir border checkpoint in Tunisia, a trio of filmmakers carried their cameras in and began filming an on-the-fly chronicle of the camp's installation, operation, and dismantling.

• 29 October 2014
• Tarek Sharkawy

After he completed his mandatory military service, the filmmaker was held in retention as the revolution unfurled in his country. During these times, he would go back to his home, located in the middle of Damascus city, take off his military uniform and work as an assistant director with his friend, the filmmaker Mohammed Malas. To make sense of this schizophrenic situation, he decides to take his camera and start shooting a ‘making-of’ that will eventually go beyond Malas’s film.

• 29 October 2014
• Tarek Sharkawy