A classic of Arab cinema by Egyptian director Tewfik Saleh, adapted from Ghassan Kanafani’s novella Men in the Sun. Three Palestinian refugees of different generations, each driven by the poverty and loss that followed the Nakba, try to be smuggled from Iraq into Kuwait in search of work.
Their only way across the desert is hidden inside the empty water tank of a lorry under the scorching sun. Made in Syria, the film won the top prize at the Carthage Film Festival in 1972 and remains one of the most powerful films about Palestinian exile.
