Salt of This Sea (2008)

Name: Salt of This Sea
Rating: 3.4

3.4 of 5 from 45 ratings

1h 45min

Not released

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An urgent and devastating portrait of life in Palestine, Salt of This Sea is essential viewing. Sixty years after her grandparents exile from Jaffa, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) leaves Brooklyn to live in her homeland. Discovering that her family's bank account was frozen after the Arab- Israeli way, she decides to leave Brooklyn for her homeland, determined to reclaim her birthright, through whatever means necessary. With the help of her disillusioned lover Emad (Saleh Bakri) and his filmmaker pal Marwan (Riyad Ideis), they plan on one big heist to settle the historical debt.
Driving through the countryside like an Arab (and pacifist) Bonnie and Clyde, Soraya and Emad discover their roots while rejecting their status as exiles. Hammad and Bakri attack their roles with feral intensity, electrifying the screen. The first fiction feature of Palestinian-American director Annemarie Jacir, and the first feature film from Palestine by a female director, it is an intimate, urgent and rousing piece of political filmmaking.
Actors:: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Dana Drigov, Edna Blilious, Ishai Golan, Hagar Lotem, Renana Lotem, Sylvie Wetz, Yahya Barakat, Khaled Hourani, Ismael Dabbag, Jack Saadeh, Iman Aoun, Giras Abu Sabbah
Directors:: Annemarie Jacir
Writers:: Annemarie Jacir
Aka:: Milh Hadha al-Bahr
Studio:: Cam
Genres:: Drama, Romance