Milḥ hādhā al-baḥr [videorecording] = Salt of this sea / Lorber Films ; Pyramide International ; JBA Production presents ; a co-production, Philistine Films (Palestine) ... [et al.] ; a film by Annemarie Jacir ; writer, producer and director, Annemarie Jacir ; producers, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin.
Format:
[videorecording] =
Publisher:
Kino Lorber Inc.,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Sylvia Weitz. First released as a motion picture in 2008.
Summary:
Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather's savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Direct, stubborn, and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of "returning" to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it's illegal.
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