South of the Clouds

Country

United States

How it feels

A black and white short documentary from 1950 shows life at a college for women in Beirut. It follows a Muslim student from a wealthy family who shares a room with an orphaned Lebanese Christian girl. Through classes, Christian fellowship, and community service, her perspective on the world expands.

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What happens

South of the Clouds is a 1950 black and white short documentary film produced by the Protestant Film Commission. Filmed on the campus of the Beirut College for Women, it depicts the progress made by Christian missionary education in the Near East. The story focuses on a Muslim young woman from an aristocratic family who rooms with an orphan Lebanese Christian girl at the college and broadens her personal outlook through education, Christian fellowship, and community service. The film was developed in response to a request by Protestant mission boards functioning under the Missionary Education Movement to assist in their promotion of overseas missionary education. It was distributed through the Religious Film Association for rental to denominational churches throughout the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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