Origin: U.K. | Documentary | Director: Sarah Beddington | 3 minutes

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The heron-like Bennu bird of Egyptian mythology flew across the earth before time existed. Its cry broke through the primeval silence, creating light from infinite darkness. Here, its hoarse cry is lamenting the longstanding tragedy of the Eastern Mediterranean region. The film is a reflection on the southern Lebanese border, a line first drawn by the western powers during World War I, and incorporates aerial images of Palestine taken by the British in the early 20th century, when the fate of the area could have taken a very different direction.

The aerial perspective also refers to the journeys of millions of migratory birds whose ancient, cyclical journeys counter the human divisions on the ground, connecting the Palestinian people in exile in a refugee camp in Lebanon to the historic homeland with which they identify. Seventy six years after their families were forced to flee north across this border, they and their descendants are still waiting to return.