From a Bethlehem camp to Cannes: A Palestinian filmmaker’s journey

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When Wisam al-Jafari made a film about his refugee camp for college, little did he know how much noise it would make .

Ambience offers a rare and intimate view of life in the refugee camps, and it was exactly this that Jafari was keen to showcase: “I wanted to tell the story of the people,” Jafari says. “This is my daily life in the camp and most of the scenes in the film are inspired by incidents that occurred either to me personally, or to my friends.”