Cinema promotes a different narrative of the Middle East conflict

The Deer's Tooth was on the bill at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Its lead actor, Palestinian Wisam Al Jafari, who has already won a 2019 award on the Croisette, tells us about the Middle East without ever mentioning the war.

In Bethlehem's Dheisheh refugee camp, Wisam Al Jafari lives surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. It was here, amid worn cameras and grainy images, that the 15-year-old discovered a new way of seeing the world; his burgeoning passion for photography gave him the means to capture the beauty hidden in the darkest corners of his daily life. Born in the camp in 1992, he grew up in an environment where the hope of a better life was also that of greater dignity. Transforming his daily life, marked by noise and promiscuity, into an adventure: what first became an obsession then became a reality.