Films This Narrow Place After smuggling himself into the United States and reconnecting with his proud blue-collar uncle in a weakening Motor City, a conflicted young Gazan man befriends a lonely meth addict. He finds striking similarities between the urban American landscape and his own war torn homeland, while the influences that brought him there seek to hold sway. The Crown of Rust Through a series of revealing transactions, a neighborhood drug dealer comes into the reality of the social devastation he has fostered. Mideast Midwest From Ramallah to the Rust Belt, addicted to drugs or doctrine, under occupation or foreclosure, how is war defined, and victims sorted. Mideast Midwest takes a brazenly honest look at the vast issues facing these regions through the eyes of a conflicted young Arab man being acclimated to the convoluted landscape of Detroit. A journey that draws striking social parallels to his own homeland with every step, challenging his old assumptions of the American way of life, as well as his true intentions of being there.