Brick of Life (Touba Lahounna)

Brick of Life centers women in a displaced-persons camp in Darfur, where they shoulder the physically punishing labor of making and carrying bricks while men remain largely inactive. Razan Mohamed’s direct framing transforms routine work into social evidence: a record of gendered inequality, survival economies, and unequal responsibility under displacement. As the film advances toward an explicit call for equality, its strongest intervention lies in visibility, insisting that the foundational labor of camp life be seen, named, and politically read. Compact and clear-eyed, the film links daily effort to structural injustice while honoring the resilience of those who keep communal life going.