Salam Neighbor (2015)

Directed by

Zach Ingrasci, Chris Temple

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two American filmmakers live for a month in a refugee camp in Jordan to experience life alongside Syrian refugees. They document daily struggles and small moments of resilience and community.

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What happens

Salam Neighbor is a 2015 documentary film by the production companies Living on One Dollar and 1001 MEDIA. The title means "hello" neighbor. The title has a dual meaning, as the Arabic word salām means "peace"."Salaam Definition & Meaning". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved June 2, 2026. The film documents the experiences of American filmmakers Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple when they lived among 85,000 Syrians in Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp, which lies seven miles from the Syrian border. The filmmakers, who were the first allowed by the UN to register and set-up a tent inside a refugee camp, spent a month in Za'atari to cover what the UN Refugee Agency calls the world's most pressing humanitarian crisis. Salam Neighbor is a component of a three-part project focused on the Syrian refugee crisis: the documentary, a virtual reality (VR) film and a social impact campaign. The film had its world premiere in Washington, DC at the AFI DOCS film festival on June 20, 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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