A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Written by:
Marie Surae
Directed by:
Marie Surae
Original Title:
I'm not Lakit
Genres:
Documentary
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
A Lakit is a human without nationality, home, parents or even surname. He has no right to study, work, travel. But above all, he is a human being and therefore he has a future.
Saleh lives in an old house in the mountains, not far away from the historic Lebanese city of Byblos and the world's oldest port. He has no family name, no nationality, no passport, no religious belonging. Saleh is a lakit. According to the Islamic dictionary, lakit is an illegitimate, abandoned child. Arab countries have a law according to which children born out of wedlock, i.e. born by an unmarried woman, don't have a right to live a full life, they might as well not exist. In a country where the most important things are your family name, ancestry, religion and nationality, these people are deprived of it all through no fault of their own. They do not have a right to go to school or college, to travel, they won't be hired for a job.
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