3000 NIGHTS
by Mai Masri
synopsis
In her first feature film filmmaker Mai Masri explores the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Young Layla gets arrested and sentenced to a long prison sentence after picking up a Palestinian hitchhiker. In prison – where she realizes that she is pregnant – she ends up in the middle of a rebellion orchestrated by the other prisoners.
| international title: | 3000 Nights |
| original title: | 3000 Layla |
| country: | Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon |
| year: | 2015 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Mai Masri |
| film run: | 103' |
| release date: | FR 4/01/2017 |
| screenplay: | Mai Masri |
| cast: | Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadera Omran, Abeer Haddad, Karim Saleh |
| cinematography by: | Gilles Porte |
| art director: | Hussein Baydoun |
| costumes designer: | Hamada Atallah |
| music: | Sharif Sehnaoui |
| producer: | Sabine Sidawi-Hamdan, Mai Masri, Charlotte Uzu |
| production: | Les Films d'Ici, Nour Productions [LB], Orjouane Productions [LB], Philistine Films [PS] |
| distributor: | JHR Films, MAD Solutions [EG] |
