PROJECT INFO
NAME: Sisterhood – أخوات في الغربة
“Sisterhood” is a documentary about migrant domestic workers coming together to help themselves and each other in face of extreme hardship and injustice.
As the world dealt with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, Lebanon was also dealing with the fallout from the escalating economic and social crises. One of the communities hardest hit were female migrant domestic workers, an already fragile and vulnerable group. When Lebanese employers were no longer able to afford to pay their salaries, thousands of migrant women found themselves thrown out into the streets without money, clothes, food, or their travel documents.
“Sisterhood” follows a number of self-organized groups of migrant workers as they join effort and resources to face harsh realities and to help themselves and the most vulnerable amongst them cope, survive, and eventually return to their home countries.