Origin: Unknown | Fiction | Director: Nicholas Rowe | 65 minutes

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The Secret World

Nicholas Rowe 2009 Fiction 65 min.

The Secret World is a fiction feature film set in Ramallah. Adapting "Lord
of the Flies", William Golding's classic, dark story of young British
schoolboys on a deserted island who descend into brutality, The Secret
World follows a group of Palestinian school children who wake up one day to
find all the adults have disappeared. Confined in the West Bank by a
massive encircling wall, they are left to form their own society and rules.
Part mystery thriller, part political satire, The Secret World examines
what happens to a society when it is cut off from both outside influences
and its own heritage. As such it provides a fascinating doorway into issues
such as democracy, human rights, social cooperation and rule of law - all
through the eyes of children.