 Sneak Preview Benefit for the 13th Annual Arab Film Festival
Salt of This Sea
a film by Annemarie Jacir Suheir Hammad | Saleh Bakri
Cannes – Official Selection
First Prize-Best Film, Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, Italy International Critics Award (FIPRESCI Prize) 2008 Best Screenplay, Dubai International Film Festival, 2008 Special Jury Prize, Osians Asian & Arab Film Festival
7:00PM Thursday May 7th 2009
California Theater
2113 Kittredge Street, Berkeley $10 Students – $12 Adults Buy Tickets Now: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/59304
Synopsis 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. Stubborn, passionate 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 internal 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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Tuesday, March 10, 2009Salt of This Sea – May 7th 2009
Sneak Preview Benefit for the 13th Annual Arab Film Festival Salt of This Seaa film by Annemarie Jacir Suheir Hammad | Saleh Bakri Cannes – Official SelectionFirst Prize-Best Film, Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, ItalyInternational Critics Award (FIPRESCI Prize) 2008Best Screenplay, Dubai International Film Festival, 2008Special Jury Prize, Osians Asian & Arab Film Festival 7:00PM Thursday [...]
