Bitter Bread
2019, Arabic. Directed by Abbas Fahdel.
Among the countless Syrian citizens who have fled their country, about one-and-a-half-million have relocated to neighboring Lebanon. In this patient, heart-rending portrait, Iraqi-born filmmaker Abbas Fahdel, director of the epic Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), settles in with a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, most of them children.
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Arabic
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- Released
- 1 October 2019
- Original title
- حقّ الخُبزات
- Country
- France, Iraq, Lebanon
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Bitter Bread runs 87 minutes (1h 27m).
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Bitter Bread isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 October 2019. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
What movies are like Bitter Bread?
If you liked Bitter Bread, try Jim: The James Foley Story, God Grew Tired of Us, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library.
Who directed Bitter Bread?
Bitter Bread (2019) was directed by Abbas Fahdel.