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"Buffer Zone" (2025) is an 18-minute short film by Lebanese-American writer, artist, and filmmaker Farrah Berrou. It is a part-documentary, part-memoir film that chronicles her return to her ancestral border village of Kfarkila in Southern Lebanon, marking her first visit since October 8, 2023, following the November 2024 ceasefire.
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00:21What did you say?
00:22The Ba'war is after you finish any harvest things, sometimes you can do one more round.
00:42Or the scraps?
00:50What is left over?
00:58If you come out from the Mustang, you can see it.
01:07Oh, I like it.
01:09Oh, this is a hammer.
01:11Do you know this?
01:13Only in comparison to the others.
01:24Back then, we were worried about a sparse harvest.
01:33Now, we have no trees.
01:41The Ba'war is after the last year.
01:45The Ba'war is after the last year.
02:09It still feels like I haven't been back to Kfarkela since October 8th, but that's not true.
02:19I went to Kfarkela this February, but it didn't register that way.
02:26I don't know where I went, but it wasn't Kfarkela.
02:31Not anymore.
02:36I don't know where I went, but it was Kfarkela.
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