Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Katia Saleh | 23 minutes

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Organised Chaos

Katia Saleh 2007 docu 23 min.

Beirut born filmmaker Katia Saleh was caught in Beirut during the month
long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in July 2006 and documented the
day to day effects of the war on the people around her. Saleh returned to
Lebanon in 2007 to find not only physical destruction but also a population
struggling with daily instability and a country in a state of political
turmoil. While people were united in the resistance against Israel,
following the war, opinions became divided in every district and every
house. With threats of an internal war erupted following the rise of Fateh
el Islam, an armed Islamist group which had mysteriously based itself in a
Palestinian camps in northern Lebanon, violence began spreading to Beirut
with a string of car bombs and assassinations and Palestinian refugees yet
again found themselves driven from their residences. Saleh's short
documentary covers these momentous events and the rising tensions around
them whilst looking back at the effects of the previous year's war.