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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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