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A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker.

Released

2024-05-16
Revenue

$57,251
Budget

$3,000,000
Runtime

1hr 58m
Genre

Drama
Status

Released
Language

العربية, English
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Production

Cocoon Films, Native Liberty Productions, Philistine Films, Metafora Production, Wild Bunch

Crew

Farah Nabulsi

Director

Farah Nabulsi

Writer

Sawsan Asfari

Producer

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Cast

Saleh Bakri

Basem El-Saleh

Imogen Poots

Lisa

Muhammad Abed Elrahman

Adam

Stanley Townsend

Simon Cohen

Paul Herzberg

Director Lieberman

Mahmood Bakri

Yacoub

Andrea Irvine

Rachel Cohen

Asmaa Azaizeh

Salwa

Ruba Blal

Huda

Muayyad Abd Elsamad

Abu Tarek

Abd Al Naser Al Sadi

Yusef

Nabil Al Raee

Man at Night

Shams Azzam

Secret Service #1

Julia Hamdan

Hana

Hanna Ayoub

House Demolition Soldier

Nael Kanj

The Settler

Einat Weitzman

Orit

Jareer Qanadeelo

Abu Sameer

Doraid Liddawi

Military Judge

Ous Khader

Nader

Asmahan Abed Elhadi

Military Lawyer

Donna Hawa

Female Soldier

Khitam Idlbi

Court Judge

Diaa Mograby

Nathaniel

Ameer Klawe

Commando Soldier #1

Mhamd Balawni

Commando Soldier #2

Yasmin Hisham Suleiman

Bike Girl

Taher Kosa

Ibraheem

Firas Farrah

Cellmate #1

Rita Taha

Staff Member

Nicola Zreineh

Head Teacher

Waseem Khair

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A Review by Geronimo1967 7

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2024-10-16

"Adam" (Muhammad Abed Elrahman) and his recently incarcerated brother "Yacoub" (Mahmoud Bakri) are facing the compulsory demolition of their... read more

"Adam" (Muhammad Abed Elrahman) and his recently incarcerated brother "Yacoub" (Mahmoud Bakri) are facing the compulsory demolition of their home to facilitate the arrival of new Israeli settlers and an altercation sees the latter lad killed and the former bent of revenge. His teacher "Basem" (Saleh Bakri) and a visiting volunteer "Lisa" (Imogen Poots) try to intervene to stop him doing anything stupid, and insist that they follow legal process. Well it's fairly clear that that isn't going to deliver very much, but as the teacher and the volunteer start to become a little more familiar with each other, we also realise it's equally clear that "Basem" is a little more hands-on with the resistance than his public persona might suggest. Indeed, when he becomes actively embroiled in the search for a kidnapped Israeli soldier of American parentage, his relationship with both the audience and the increasingly frustrated youth becomes rather different. It's really quite a touching story, this one. Not in an overly sentimental way, but in a manner that illustrates clearly how people feel when they are wronged and then failed by a judicial system that is institutionally stacked against them. State sponsored indifference and cruelty coupled with a general sense of lawlessness (on both sides) potently fuels generations of hatred and mistrust and here we see just how it readily perpetuates long-held feelings of anger and loathing. The production looks grimly authentic, and both both Poots and Bakri deliver well but it's really the effort from the young Elrahman that stands out. Initially a decent and calming influence on his more impetuous brother, circumstances force him to become something that he might not have otherwise been. Once on that course, is he beyond any restraining from taking a journey down a very black brick road? The inclusion of the searching US parents - mainly Stanley Townsend as the father, serves to remind us that there are two sides to the story and that brutality isn't just a tool reserved for whomsoever might appear the oppressor here, and as the story concludes it does so as it starts, amidst an environment of uncertainty and fear whilst ruins pile up around those whose only real goal is to live in peace amongst the olive groves their families have harvested for centuries. It's a powerful drama that only goes to prove how much easier it is to destroy than to build.