ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW

By Roser CORELLA

MOVING MOUNTAINS FILMS - as PROD

Social issues - Completed 2020

A thought-provoking gaze of the exploitative working conditions experienced by migrant domestic workers hired under the Kafala system in Lebanon.

Festivals
& Awards

Zurich FF 2021
Focus Competition
Copenhagen CPH PIX 2021
F:act Award
Hot Docs 2021
Systems Down
DMZ Docs 2021
Special Mention
DOCSBARCELONA 2021
Amnesty Int Award
Thessaloniki IFF 2021
Shanghai 2021
DOCS Mx 2021
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • AUSTRIA, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • ARABIC, AMHARIC, BENGALI, FRENCH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 73 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Roser CORELLA
    • Producer(s)
    • Florian KLÄGER, Ana CATALÁ (MOVING MOUNTAINS FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • The film chronicles the dire reality of foreign domestic workers in Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon. By combining a multitude of perspectives, it offers intimate insights into the private lives of employers, agents and maids. From the legal framework that creates a structure of power and control that is conducive to corruption and abuse, analysing the architectural patterns of the city founded on racism, to the private sphere of the house that serves to reproduce a patriarchal system that discriminates against Lebanese women and which in turn undermines the rights of foreign domestic workers in the household. Exposing modern forms of slavery, it also reflects on the role of women and domestic work at large in capitalist societies.