Mohamad Al Jounde

As most Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Mohamad had lost everything, including access to school. So he built one, at the age of 12 with the kids of the refugee camps. Now his Gharsah school welcomes about 200 children everyday.

« I started because I saw myself as being a useless piece of shit. I saw the kids as being fucking great so I was like ’let’s do something for them. A school that we would build with them. Not for them’. »

« I found asylum in Sweden to finish school. I always thought that would be paradise. And it is. Yet I also feel everything is made for you to feel disactivated. But the problem is that when you have people who don’t resist, you have people who don’t think. When you have people who don’t think you have people who are weak. And the weaker that people are, the easier for other institutions to control them. That’s why I keep resisting. »

« They are trying to say the truth – the truth we see, our truth, our version of the truth and that’s a first. I think this film is one of the few examples of a documentary where they are trying to give us a platform to talk to everyone and anyone. To tell who we are really. And not only the part that sells more. And that will contribute to the bigger image and help us say things that we can’t never say on other platforms. »