Several interconnected vignettes make up “Chronicles From the Siege,” Abdallah Alkhatib’s harrowing, poignant, sometimes darkly hilarious dispatch from the frontlines of a violent blitz. The drama is shot with a documentarian’s eye and unfolds in the ruins of an unnamed city, but its setting is far from nebulous — not least because of the presence of a few Palestinian flags. The stories are drawn from various sources, including tales from Gaza in recent years, as well as Alkhatib’s own experiences under fire in the Yarmouk refugee camp for Palestinians in Damascus during the Syrian Civil War, which the Palestinian-Syrian filmmaker previously turned into the documentary “Little Palestine.”
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