Salt of This Sea (2008) Milh Hadha al-Bahr
Salt of This Sea (2008)
DVDRip | AVI | 672x368 | XviD @ 1127 Kbps | 105 min | 0,98 Gb
Audio: Arabic (العربية) MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama, Romance
DVDRip | AVI | 672x368 | XviD @ 1127 Kbps | 105 min | 0,98 Gb
Audio: Arabic (العربية) MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Annemarie Jacir
Writers: Mamoun El Shinawi (poetry writer), Annemarie Jacir
Stars: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis
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.
IMDB - 7 wins
This is a film well worth seeing by people who want to know more about the reality of the Palestinian tragedy. Artistically made, with no hysterics about showing daily material sufferings, but instead, the ordinary life of Palestinians which has to somehow go on, with laughter, anger, happiness, pain, love, etc. It also reflected the psychological pain felt by the Palestinians wherever they may be (in USA in this case), showing how a Palestinian-American young lady seeking her roots in a country she had never seen before can in fact have the feeling of "longing" and belonging, not in any way different from the feeling of an adopted child upon meeting her/his real parents. The film is of course about Palestine and Palestinians and not about Israel and Israelis, however, it does not "demonize" anyone! See it for yourself and be the judge!
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Salt of This Sea (2008) Milh Hadha al-Bahr
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