In 2017 and 2018 the documentary community Other Story, travelled around Jordan in the Middle East to explore ideas of the concept of ‘home’. On the journey through Jordan, Other Story encountered a series of people; all with the status of refugee. In this film you meet 17 year old Ibrahim, a young man who fled two wars together with his family. The war in Iraq when he was a child, and the war in Syria as a teenager. Ibrahim shares reflections on what 'home’ is when you repeatedly are forced to leave it.

Other Story
Other Story is an ongoing documentary project, comprised of short films presenting personal stories in a world of monumental change. This is an alternative approach to news media, recording human testimonials based on heart-to-heart dialogues.
Central to Other Story’s work is the belief that stories matter. Stories shape the way we know our world, each other and ourselves. In a time when it is crucial that we change our habits and ways of inhabiting the world, Other Story seeks to encourage this process by sharing the stories of ordinary people, the change-makers fighting for humanity and for the planet.
Characterized as “slow journalism with radical softness” the films evolve from a series of simple questions, such as: What is home? Have you ever been in love? What is water? Responses to these questions are exquisitely relatable and have the potential to reveal much of what makes us human.

Directors bio:
Madeleine Kate McGowan works in the intersection of documentary-art, installation and media-activism. In 2015 McGowan founded the ongoing documentary project Other Story and since 2008, McGowan has been an active part of the pioneering immersive performance scene in Copenhagen.

Film credits Produced by Other Story
Directed and edited by Madeleine Kate McGowan
Camera by Anton Falck Gansted, Kamil Dossar Franko and Madeleine Kate McGowan
Graphics by Victor Lyse
Sound by Kamal El Aoufi
Supported by NXT, Interkulturelt Center, Danish Cultural Institute in Damascus